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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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Scientific name Authority First published in
Costus guianicus Loes. Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2 , 15a: 632 (1930)
Costus bracteatus Gleason Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 56: 20 (1929)

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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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