B. torresii

Flora of Costa Rica. Begoniaceae. by Paul C. Standley. Chicago 1937. v. 18: pt. 2 (1937): Page 737-48 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747 Plants erect, 25-40 cm. high, with few branches, the branches short villous or glabrate; stipules about 1 cm. long; leaves short-petiolate, the blades oblong or ovate-oblong, 3-7 cm. long, obtuse to acuminate, oblique at the base, rounded on one side and very acute on the other, duplicate-serrate, at first short-villous on both sides but soon glabrate; peduncles with 1- few flowers, the flowers pink; staminate sepals 6 mm. long, glabrous; capsule glabrous, 2 cm. long, rounded at the base, abruptly contracted above into a stout beak 1 cm. long, the body deeply 3-lobate, the triangular lobes divaricate, abruptly contracted into a short horn. The species was named for Prof. Ruben Torres Rojas. This is apparently the plant reported from Costa Rica as B. Urticae L. f. var. hispida A. DC. (in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1: 274. 1864; Sessea Hoffmanniana Klotzsch ex A. DC. op. cit. 275), based in part upon a specimen from Aguacate, collected by Hoffmann.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Unknown
• Botanical Section: Casparya
• Origin: America, Costa Rica
• Originator: Standl.
• Date of Origin: 1927