5. Begonia veitchii Hook.f.
The Gardners’ Chronical and Agricultural Gazette I: 734 (Hooker 1867a).
– Type: PERU • On hills from Cuzco to Ayacucho from Habaspamba ; 3350–3660 m a.s.l.; Jan. 1867; R. Pearce s.n.; lectotype: K [K000252032], designated by Tebbitt et al. (2020: 130).
Key to the varieties of Begonia veitchii
1a Tepals spreading, white, pink, or red; tepals on the pistillate flower narrowly ovate to ovate.............................................................................................. Begonia veitchii var. veitchii 5. 1
1b Tepals projecting, red; tepals on the pistillate flower elliptic, broadly ovate, orbicular, or broadly obovate........................................................... Begonia veitchii var. machupicchuensis Tebbitt 5. 2