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Internal ID UUID643ff4692ebc9935571681
Scientific name Costus asplundii
Authority (Maas) Maas
First published in Acta Bot. Neerl. 24: 470 (1975 publ. 1976)

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Costus guanaiensis var. asplundii Maas Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 8: 52 (1972)

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000362864
Tropicos 34500574
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66821-2
The Plant List kew-234570
Open Tree Of Life 353000
NCBI Taxonomy 328756
IPNI 66821-2
iNaturalist 505461
GBIF 2756973
EOL 1122526

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Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_051419275.1 ASM5141927v1 Scaffold Iridian Genomes 2025-07-20 60 610.16 Mb

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Spiraling into History: A Molecular Phylogeny and Investigation of Biogeographic Origins and Floral Evolution for the Genus Costus Salzman S, Driscoll HE, Renner T, André T, Shen S, Specht CD 12-Feb-2015
PMCID:PMC4486287
doi:10.1600/036364415X686404
PMID:26146450

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