Begonia botryoides Moonlight & Tebbitt

Edinburgh Journal of Botany 74(2): 201 (Tebbitt et al. 2017).

– Type: ECUADOR – Prov. El Oro • Road Piñas-Santa Rosa, above El Placer; [3°38′ S, 79°45′ W]; 800–1000 m a.s.l.; 15 Oct. 1977; G. Harling, U. Eliasson & L. Andersson 15551; holotype: GB; isotypes: MO [MO-2271396], US [US00221535], S.

Begonia albomaculata auct. non. C.DC.: L.B.Sm. & B.G.Schub., Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 8 (1): 37 (Smith & Schubert 1952).

Begonia albomaculata auct. non. C.DC.: L.B.Sm. & Wassh., Phytologia 44 (4): 246 (Smith & Wasshausen 1979).

Smith & Wasshausen (1984: 465, pl. 1, 1985: 46).

Notes

Begonia albomaculata is a Peruvian species covered in this account. During the period Lyman Bradford Smith and his colleagues were working on Andean Begonia, the type of this species was unknown. As discussed in detail in Tebbitt et al. (2017), a photograph of an Ecuadorian specimen, Camp E-618 (G) housed at F, was used as a de facto type. This specimen was erroneously identified by C.DC. as B. albomaculata but in fact represents a distantly related species, which was described in Tebbitt et al. (2017) as B. botryoides Moonlight & Tebbitt and is not found in Peru.