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Internal ID UUID643ff47945655940186542
Scientific name Costus osae
Authority Maas & H.Maas
First published in Brittonia 49(2): 277. 1997

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Language Common/alternative name
Chinese 红头姜
Chinese 红鞘闭鞘姜

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000363302
Tropicos 50096885
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:314100-2
The Plant List kew-234717
Open Tree Of Life 303113
NCBI Taxonomy 328779
IUCN Red List 56347828
IPNI 996685-1
iNaturalist 346166
GBIF 2756916
Freebase /m/09v7dfs
EOL 1122468
Wikipedia Costus_osae

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_049181275.1 ASM4918127v1 Scaffold Iridian Genomes 2025-03-30 60 1.04 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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