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Accession Data:

Costus scaber Ruiz & Pav.

  • Common Name: Indan Head Ginger
  • Family: Costaceae (K. Schum.) Nak.

  • Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900154
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994714
  • Provenance: 
    Kress# 94-5280
ex hort.- From Lyon Arboretum
Jun 1995
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 3313 - NEOB: Blue Tanks North
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-15-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Zingiberales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Costaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southeast / Costa Rica / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Trinidad-Tobago / Windward Is. / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil North

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  3. 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 12:59:53 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Costus scaber

Additional images for this accession:

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Current Accessions in the Costaceae

  • Chamaecostus cuspidatus
  • Cheilocostus speciosus W/C
  • Costus asplundii
  • Costus bracteatus
  • Costus chartaceus W/C
  • Costus dubius
  • Costus lasius
  • Costus lateriflorus
  • Costus phaeotrichus W/C
  • Costus pictus
  • Costus productus
  • Costus scaber
  • Costus spectabilis
  • Costus spicatus W/C
  • Costus tappenbeckianus
  • Costus tonkinensis
  • Costus vargasii
  • Costus vinosus W/C
  • Costus afer
  • Costus aff. guanaiensis
  • Costus comosus var. bakeri
  • Costus malortieanus
  • Costus pulverulentus
  • Costus woodsonii
  • Dimerocostus strobilaceus
  • Monocostus uniflorus
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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