Begonia hirta, (Klotzsch) L. B. Sm. & B. G. Schub

Jara-Munoz, Orlando A., Richardson, James E. & Madrinan, Santiago, 2019, Character Evolution and Recircumscription of the Northern Andean Begonia Section Casparya (Begoniaceae), Systematic Botany (Basel, Switzerland) 44 (1), pp. 52-65 : 63

BEGONIA HIRTA (Klotzsch) L. B. Sm. & B. G. Schub . Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(4/1): 192. 1941.

Casparya hirta Klotzsch . Monatsb. Akad. Berl. 1854. 127.

TYPE: PERU. in Mu~ na, 1784, Ruiz s. n. (lectotype: F [Phono Negative Number 20854] here designed) .

Begonia raimondii Irmsch. syn. nov. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74(4): 629–630. 1949. TYPE: PERU. Rio Massamerich, 3100 m, 1904–1914, Weberbawer 6639. (holotype: US here designed).

Examination of the type specimens as well as specimens labeled under both names in the herbaria K, E, US, and MO do not show differences. There is continuous variation in density and type of pubescence, flower size, and leaf texture, all these characters that according to Irmscher (1949) allows to differentiate B. raimondii from B. hirta . Irmscher did not cite a holotype for B. raimondii , and the syntypes hosted at B were not found and were possibly destroyed. Raimondii 2982 was the first collected and first cited specimen in the protologue, however we do not have duplicates so we designated the other syntype cited in the protologue, Weberbawer 6639, which has a duplicate at US, as the lectotype.