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Internal ID UUID643ff4726f5c7635613003
Scientific name Costus laevis
Authority Ruiz & Pav.
First published in Fl. Peruv. 1: 3 (1798)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Costus cylindricus var. pulcherrimus K.Schum. Pflanzenr. , IV, 46: 406 (1904)
Costus kuntzei K.Schum. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 422 (1892)
Costus pulcherrimus Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 301 (1898)
Costus skutchii C.V.Morton J. Washington Acad. Sci. 27: 306 (1937)
Costus splendens Donn.Sm. & Türckh. Bot. Gaz. 33: 260 (1902)
Costus weberbaueri Loes. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 712 (1929)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic قسط أملس
Chinese 红杆闭鞘姜

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  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000363114
Tropicos 34500063
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796315-1
The Plant List kew-234665
Open Tree Of Life 1077255
NCBI Taxonomy 168182
IPNI 796315-1
iNaturalist 141227
GBIF 2756834
EOL 1122492

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Functional traits of broad-leaved monocot herbs in the understory and forest edges of a Costa Rican rainforest Rundel PW, Cooley AM, Gerst KL, Riordan EC, Sharifi MR, Sun JW, Tower JA PeerJ 27-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7597634
doi:10.7717/peerj.9958
PMID:33194368
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
The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) Staines CL, García-Robledo C Zookeys 22-Aug-2014
PMCID:PMC4155720
doi:10.3897/zookeys.436.5766
PMID:25197208
In Tropical Lowland Rain Forests Monocots have Tougher Leaves than Dicots, and Include a New Kind of Tough Leaf Dominy NJ, Grubb PJ, Jackson RV, Lucas PW, Metcalfe DJ, Svenning JC, Turner IM Ann Bot 03-Apr-2008
PMCID:PMC2710255
doi:10.1093/aob/mcn046
PMID:18387969

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