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Begonia chrysantha Tebbitt

Description

1.2.Begonia chrysantha Tebbitt, Brittonia 67(3): 224, fig. 2 (2015). – Type: Bolivia, Chuquisaca Department, Prov. Belisario Boeto, Nuevo Mundo, 18°59′S, 64°17′W, 2200 m, 3 i 1996, J.R.I. Wood 10351 (holotype HSB, isotype K).

M.C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of Begonia sect. Australes 73 (2020).

Distribution. Endemic to Bolivia and Chuquisaca Department.

Identification notes. Begonia chrysantha is distinguished as a tuberous, caulescent species with notched, vivid golden-yellow tepals and a red indument. It can be distinguished from Begonia heliantha Tebbitt by its non-glandular hairs and from B. pearcei by its acute leaf apices (vs acuminate leaf apices). It also differs in its hairs, which are red throughout or red at the apices, whereas those of Begonia pearcei are white.

Notes

Published as part of Moonlight, Peter & Fuentes, Alfredo F., 2022, AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BOLIVIAN BEGONIA, INCLUDING ONE NEW SPECIES, pp. 1-66 in Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (407) on page 10, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2022.407, http://zenodo.org/record/10553332

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Biodiversity

Collection code
HSB , K
Event date
1996-01-03
Verbatim event date
1996-01-03
Scientific name authorship
Tebbitt
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Cucurbitales
Family
Begoniaceae
Genus
Begonia
Species
chrysantha
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , isotype