B. pittieri

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 small, erect, about 30 cm. high, mostly simple; leaves petiolate, the blades ovate oblong, mostly 6-9 cm. long, long-acuminate, very oblique and shallowly cordate at the base, palmately 5-nerved, denticulate, sparsely long-pilose on the upper surface, glabrous beneath; cymes much shorter than the leaves, small, few-flowered; sepals of the staminate flower 2 and 7 mm. long, the petals much smaller; pistillate flower 3-parted; capsule 6 mm. long, bearing on each angle a spreading, horn-like appendage 1 cm. long. The plants are sometimes epiphytic in habit.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Urniformia
• Origin: America, Costa Rica
• Originator: C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2.
• Date of Origin: 1908