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Internal ID UUID643ff46fd0e9a919659710
Scientific name Costus gabonensis
Authority Koechlin
First published in Fl. Gabon 9: 82 (1964)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic قسط غابوني

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  • Africa
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Congo
      • Equatorial Guinea
      • Gabon

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000363035
Tropicos 34500392
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:872305-1
The Plant List kew-234633
Open Tree Of Life 768791
NCBI Taxonomy 329245
IPNI 872305-1
GBIF 2756797
EOL 1122498

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_056591895.1 ASM5659189v1 Scaffold Iridian Genomes 2026-04-05 60 696.00 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
Costus loangensis, an exciting new species from Gabon, Africa de Kamer HM, Maas PJ, Specht CD PhytoKeys 19-Nov-2012
PMCID:PMC3666603
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.18.3713
PMID:23730190

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