Begonia geraniifolia Hook.f., Bot. Mag. 62, pl. 3387 (1835).

D.C. Wasshausen et al. in P.M. JØrgensen et al. (eds), Cat. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 129: 385 (2013).

Notes. Wasshausen et al. (2013) excluded Begonia geraniifolia Hook. from their checklist of Bolivian Begonia and stated that an earlier citation (Adolfo María, 1966) was based on misidentified material. We have been unable to locate a copy of the earlier reference so cannot confirm either that this is a misapplied name or to what specimens and species it was misapplied.

Begonia heliantha Tebbitt, Edinburgh J. Bot. 73(1): 145 (2016).

M.C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of Begonia sect. Australes 87 (2020).

Notes. Tebbitt’s monograph of Begonia sect. Australes includes a map (Tebbitt, 2020: 87) showing two localities for B. heliantha Tebbitt in northern Bolivia: one in La Paz Department and one in Cochabamba Department. These are tentative records based on identifications from photographs (Tebbitt, 2016: 148). We exclude this species from our checklist of Bolivian Begonia but include it in our key.