Begonia veitchii var. lanatifolia Tebbitt

Moonlight, Peter & Fuentes, Alfredo F., 2022, AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BOLIVIAN BEGONIA, INCLUDING ONE NEW SPECIES, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (407), pp. 1-66 : 16

1.10.2. Begonia veitchii var. lanatifolia Tebbitt , Edinburgh J. Bot. 77(1): 139, fig. 3 (2019).

– Type: Bolivia, Chuquisaca Department, Prov. Oropeza, Santuario de Chataquila , hacia Punila c. 12 km, 19°0′5′′S, 65°22′38′′W, 3303 m, 25 ii 2007, E. Cervantes 137 (holotype MO [ MO-2054071 ], isotype HSB).

M. C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of Begonia sect. Australes 2020: 133.

Distribution. Endemic to Bolivia and Chuquisaca Department.

Identification notes. Begonia veitchii var. lanatifolia Tebbitt differs from the type variety of B. veitchii in having a dense cover of lanate hairs in their dense indumentum of white hairs (drying brown) on their petioles and leaf undersurfaces. It also differs in its three ovary and fruit wings, which are reduced and rib-like (vs non-reduced and wing-like).