Begonia nelumbiifolia
Distribution
nCu(pCuW(pPR*)) – pJa pPRc AmN AmC AmS
Puerto Rico: not native but possibly naturalised North America: native Cuba: naturalised, West Cuba not native but possibly naturalised (Pinar del Río not native but possibly naturalised) South America: native Jamaica: not native but possibly naturalised Central America: native
Synonymy
Begonia nelumbiifolia in Linnaea 5: 604. 1830 sec. Sierra Calzado 2000
- ≡Gireoudia nelumbiifolia in Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1854: 125. 1854 syn. sec. Sierra Calzado 2000
- Type: "Lectótipo: Mexico, in sylvis Misanthae, Schiede 730 (B!, isolectótipos B!)."1
- =Begonia caudilimba in Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12): 9. 1919 syn. sec. Sierra Calzado 2000
- Type: "Holótipo: Panama, forest along the Río Indio de Gatún, Canal Zone, near sea-level, Maxon 4866 (G?, US?), n.v."2