Roots fibrous. Stems to 40 cm tall, sometimes branched, covered with soft white hairs, internodes short. Leaves broadly ovate with double apex, mid-green upper surface, paler below, with short white hairs above and below; margins toothed, hairy. Flowers white, fragrant, in dense clusters.
Costa Rica
Source: (1997). Begoniaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
