B. carpinifolia

Tolerates drier conditions - Rekha Morris 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 slender, glabrous, often somewhat shrubby and as much as 2 meters high, branched; leaves short-petiolate, penninerved, ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, long-acuminate, unequally obtuse or acutish at the base, obscurely denticulate or almost entire, the lateral nerves about 6 on each side, mostly 5- 10 cm. long and 1.5-3 cm. wide; cymes mostly few-flowered and about equaling the leaves, the flowers white or pink; sepals 6 mm. long; capsule glabrous, 5- 6 mm. long, one of the angles produced into a wing 12 mm. long, the other angles very narrowly winged. A characteristic and rather handsome plant of mountain forests of the central region.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Ruizopavonia
• Origin: America, Costa Rica, Panama
• Originator: Liebm.
• Date of Origin: 1852