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Internal ID UUID643ff46ba9bda981481707
Scientific name Costus claviger
Authority Benoist
First published in Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 33: 270 (1927)

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Costus claviger is a type of flowering plant that belongs to the genus Costus. It is a rhizomatous geophyte, meaning it has underground stems and grows in the wet tropical biome. This plant is mainly found in French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, and it thrives in soil that contains granite.

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Costus guianicus Loes. Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2 , 15a: 632 (1930)

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  • Southern America
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname

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World Flora Online wfo-0000362913
Tropicos 34500461
INPN 731740
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66830-2
The Plant List kew-234585
Open Tree Of Life 353013
Observations.org 314570
NCBI Taxonomy 328759
IPNI 66830-2
iNaturalist 504271
GBIF 2756906
EOL 1122518
Elurikkus 296907
USDA GRIN 476470
Wikipedia Costus_claviger

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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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