Begonia

Ardi, Wisnu, Campos, Lucia, Chung, Kuo Fang, Dong, Wen-Ke, Drinkwater, Eleanor, Fuller, Danny, Gagul, Janet, Garnett, George, Girmansyah, Deden, Goodall-Copestake, William, Hughes, Mark, Jacques, Eliane, Jara Muaoz, Orlando Adolfo, Sang, Julia, Kidner, Catherine, Kiew, Ruth, Krishna, Nikhil, Li, Rosalie, Kumarage, Lakmini, Maw, Mya Bhone, Lin, Che Wei, Moonlight, Peter, Nguyen, Hieu Quang, Nguyen, Hieu Quang, Putthai, Thamarat, Pradeep, A. K., Rajbhandary, Sangeeta, Rubite, Rosario, Scherberich, David, Souvannakhoummane, Keooudone, Sreenath, Madhavi, Tebbitt, Mark, Thomas, Daniel, Tian, Daike, Tseng, Yu Hsin & Wilson, Hannah, 2022, RESOLVING PHYLOGENETIC AND TAXONOMIC CONFLICT IN BEGONIA, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1928), pp. 1-28 : 17

Begonia should be treated as a single genus

The last genus to be sunk into Begonia was Symbegonia Warb. ( Forrest & Hollingsworth, 2003), placing every species in the family in Begonia apart from Hillebrandia sandwicensis . The rank of section has served taxonomic endeavours well and allows movement of species between sections without the upheaval of new combinations. This is all the more important due to the high amount of taxonomic activity in Begonia at present.