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This species is accepted, and its native range is Ecuador to Peru.

Native to:

Ecuador, Peru

Begonia octopetala L'Hér. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Stirp. Nov.: 101 (1788)

Accepted by

  • Tebbitt, M.C. (2014). Two new species of Andean tuberous Begonia in the B. octopetala group (Begoniaceae) Novon 23: 479-489.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741.
  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Tebbitt, M.C. (2014). Two new species of Andean tuberous Begonia in the B. octopetala group (Begoniaceae) Novon 23: 479-489.

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0