B. plebeja

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 with a short, thick, oblique rhizome; leaves long-petiolate, thin when dried, the blades obliquely and broadly ovate, acute or short-acuminate, cordate at the base, irregularly dentate and denticulate, ciliate, sometimes shallowly lo bate, glabrous above, beneath sparsely pilose; scapes equaling or longer than the leaves, at first rufous-pilose, later glabrate, the cymes rather small and few-flowered, the flowers white; sepals 2; capsule glabrous, the largest wing triangular, truncate above, the other 2 much narrower.

• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Rhizomatous
• Botanical Section: Gireoudia
• Origin: America, Mexico, Central America
• Originator: Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn
• Date of Origin: 1853