B. squamosa

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 stout, with a thick, horizontal or oblique rhizome; leaves long-petiolate, the petioles densely covered with lanceolate, fimbriate scales; blades large, rounded-ovate, acuminate, deeply cordate at the very oblique base, glabrous, or at least when young squamose along the nerves on the lower surface, palmately 7-nerved, ciliate, the margin sometimes almost entire but more often denticulate and often shallowly lobate; peduncles mostly longer than the leaves, the cymes large and broad, many-flowered; sepals 2, glabrous, about 8 mm. long; capsule glabrous, 6 mm. long, the largest wing 7 mm. long, obtuse, the other 2 much narrower. Begonia strigillosa Dietr. was collected in Central America, perhaps in Costa Rica, by Warscewicz. however, so far as I know, no similar plant has been found in recent years in Costa Rica, and it may be that the type came from some other country.

• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Thick Stem
• Botanical Section: Gireoudia
• Origin: America, Costa Rica
• Originator: C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2.
• Date of Origin: 1908