One of the most common Central American species; 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 Rhizomes thick and prostrate, rooting, densely covered with long-pilose stipules; leaves long petiolate, the petioles densely covered with long, brown hairs; blades obliquely ovate, thin when dried, about 8 cm. long and 11 cm. wide or larger, acuminate, rounded-cordate at the base, coarsely dentate or somewhat lobate, densely long-pilose, especially beneath; scapes much longer than the leaves, the cymes broad, many-flowered, long pilose; sepals 2 in both staminate and pistillate flowers, the staminate sepals 6 mm. long; capsule glabrous, 2 cm. long, acute at the base, the wings unequal, obtuse, the largest one subascending.
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Upright, eventually recumbent, then reroots becoming upright again
