Accession Data:
Costus afer Ker Gawl.
- Common Name:
- Family: Costaceae (K. Schum.) Nak.
- Country of Origin: Trop. Africa
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201900143
- Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994671
- Provenance:
Kress# 3683 ex hort., Archer, Florida, United States
- Accession Date: 07-10-2019
- Bench: 3314 - NEOB: Blue Tanks South
- Currently: active - needs attention
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-15-2024
- Restrictions:
- IUCN Red List: Species Vulnerable or Habitat Critically Threatened
- IUCN Red List: Species Vulnerable or Habitat Critically Threatened
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Costaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe:
- SubTribe:
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Burkina / Ghana / Guinea-Bissau / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Nigeria / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo / Burundi / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Zaire / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zimbabwe
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Last accessed on Sunday, 23 June, 2019.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Last accessed on Sunday, 23 June, 2019.
- BGCI ThreatSearch. Last accessed on Friday, 28 June, 2019.
- Maas-van de Kamer, H.; Maas, P.J.M.; Wieringa, J.J.; Specht, C.D. Monograph of African Costaceae, Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Volume 61, Number 3, 2016, pp. 280-318(39) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651916X694445
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.
data regenerated on Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:59:52 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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