Database	ID/link to page
World Flora Online	wfo-0000363248
Tropicos	34500174
KEW	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66883-2
The Plant List	kew-234709
Open Tree Of Life	532575
NCBI Taxonomy	661129
IUCN Red List	56347808
IPNI	66883-2
iNaturalist	436034
GBIF	2756844
EOL	1122472
Wikipedia	Costus_nitidus

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Accession	Assembly
Accession	Name	Level	Submitter	Released	Coverage	Size
GCA_051252875.1	ASM5125287v1	Scaffold	Iridian Genomes	2025-07-08	60	1.08 Gb

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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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Costus nitidus

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