Begonia chrysantha 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 : 10

1.2. Begonia chrysantha Tebbitt , Brittonia 67(3): 224, fig. 2 (2015).

– Type: Bolivia, Chuquisaca Department, Prov. Belisario Boeto , Nuevo Mundo , 18°59′S, 64°17′W, 2200 m, 3 i 1996, J.R.I. Wood 10351 (holotype HSB, isotype K) .

M.C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of Begonia sect. Australes 73 (2020).

Distribution. Endemic to Bolivia and Chuquisaca Department.

Identification notes. Begonia chrysantha is distinguished as a tuberous, caulescent species with notched, vivid golden-yellow tepals and a red indument. It can be distinguished from Begonia heliantha Tebbitt by its non-glandular hairs and from B. pearcei by its acute leaf apices (vs acuminate leaf apices). It also differs in its hairs, which are red throughout or red at the apices, whereas those of Begonia pearcei are white.