“The tuberous species Begonia pearcei was collected by Richard Pearce in the southeastern Bolivian altiplano in 1865. Small heart-shaped leaves are dark velvety green shot through with cream veins, reddish-purple tints to leaf undersides and bright yellow flowers held above the leaves (and in very large specimens flopping out and down past the leaves). B. pearcei is one of six yellow-flowered species in section Australes….B. pearcei has not been collected often and Tebbitt’s research suggests that it is likely endemic to a very narrow location. Environs of its initial collections are 1000 to 1600 m, steep and rocky banks in deep shade of a Tucumano-Boliviano type forest (semi-deciduous, transitioning downward to sub-Andean altitudes).”