9.41. Begonia glabra Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 916, t. 349 (1775).

– Type: [French Guiana], Cayanne Arrondissement, entre la riviere de Sinémari & le crique de Galibis, 5°8′N, 52°38′W], J.B.C.F. Aublet s.n. (lectotype BM [BM001008462], designated in: Phytologia 44(4): 239 (1979) by Smith, L.B. & Wasshausen, D.C.).

L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Revista Univ. (Cuzco) 33(87): 82 (1944); R.C. Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 184: 137 (1958); D.C. Wasshausen et al. in P.M. JØrgensen et al. (eds), Cat. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 129: 384 (2013).

Distribution. Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

Identification notes. Begonia glabra is the only scandent species of Begonia in Bolivia that roots at its nodes. It is also unique in Bolivia in its straight, subsymmetrical and ovate leaves, which are three-veined from the base.