Table 2.

Camparison of Begonia circularis with B. lanternaria and B. picturata

	B. circularis	B. lanternaria	B. picturata(Liu et al.[2005:]figures one and two)
Leaf
Maculation	A pale ring ca. 1.5–2 cm from the margin against a dark green background	With digitate, green or dark green bands along major veins and leaf margin	With digitate, dark brown bands along major veins and leaf margin
Adaxial surface	Hispid	Puberulous	Villous-setose or tomentose-setose, bullate at base
Abaxial surface	Hispid on all veins	Villous on major veins	Densely shortly villous, particularly on veins
Bract
Shape	Oblong to ovate, boat-shaped, margin sparsely shortly fimbriate	Elliptic to broadly-ovate, margin glandulose-ciliate	Ovate, oblong to rounded, margin ciliate
Length (mm)	6–10 × 2.5–4	5–9 × 4–6.5	4.5–15 × 4.5–8
Male flower
Outer tepal size (mm)	14–19 × 13–16	7–9 × 6–8	14–22 × 14–17
Inner tepal size (mm)	10–13 × 2–4	5.5–6 × 2–3	10–19 × 4.–5.5
Vestiture on outer tepals	Sparsely setulose to glabrous	Glandulose-pilose	Villous-setose
Female flower
Ovary	With minute sessile glands	Glandulose-pilose	Villous-setose or hispid-setose
Wings on ovary	Deltate	Crescent-shaped	Crescent-shaped