Costus spectabilis

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Internal ID UUID643ff4837bbac120748977
Scientific name Costus spectabilis
Authority K.Schum.
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 422 (1892)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Cadalvena dalzielii C.H.Wright Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 195 (1912)
Cadalvena pistiifolia Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 297 (1898)
Cadalvena spectabilis Fenzl Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 2 , 51(2): 139 (1865)
Costus pistiifolius K.Schum. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 424 (1892)
Kaempferia spectabilis (Fenzl) Baker Fl. trop. Afr. 297
Kaempferia spectabilis Bentham & H

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic قسط منظاري
Bambara samasen
Persian شیپور زرد
Fulah dengere
Chinese 奇丽闭鞘姜

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Mali
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Gulf Of Guinea Islands
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000363618
Tropicos 34500409
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:796384-1
The Plant List kew-234780
Open Tree Of Life 143715
NCBI Taxonomy 329235
IPNI 796384-1
iNaturalist 338660
GBIF 2756942
Freebase /m/012htykx
EPPO CQTSB
EOL 1122453
Wikipedia Costus_spectabilis

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Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem Wieczorkowski JD, Lehmann CE, Archibald S, Banda S, Goyder DJ, Kaluwe M, Kapinga K, Larridon I, Mashau AC, Phiri E, Syampungani S Ann Bot 04-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11082521
doi:10.1093/aob/mcae035
PMID:38468311
Comparative ecology of Guinea baboons (Papio papio) Zinner D, Klapproth M, Schell A, Ohrndorf L, Chala D, Ganzhorn JU, Fischer J Primate Biol 21-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8182668
doi:10.5194/pb-8-19-2021
PMID:34109265
Diversity, above-ground biomass, and vegetation patterns in a tropical dry forest in Kimbi-Fungom National Park, Cameroon Sainge MN, Nchu F, Townsend Peterson A Heliyon 31-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC7002822
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03290
PMID:32042986
Breeders’ knowledge on cattle fodder species preference in rangelands of Benin Ouachinou JM, Dassou GH, Azihou AF, Adomou AC, Yédomonhan H J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 08-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6225710
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0264-1
PMID:30409166
First large-scale ethnobotanical survey in the province of Uíge, northern Angola Lautenschläger T, Monizi M, Pedro M, Mandombe JL, Bránquima MF, Heinze C, Neinhuis C J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 25-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6060550
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0238-3
PMID:30045744
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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