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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus discolor FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Neotropical SYNONYMS: Costus arabicus, BOTANICAL NOTES: Not a valid species - obsolete synonym. TAXONOMY NOTES BY BRIAN MIDDLEDITCH - Costus discolor Roscoe is now Costus arabicus L. Schumann describes this species and places in subgenus Eucostus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904. - Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas - gopher://nmnhgoph.si.edu:70/0R217674-219444-/.docs/guianas_data//checkl2 - Costus discolor Roscoe =Costus arabicus ANGUS BOTANICAL PRINTS - TITLE: Costus discolor. 1 print : lithograph, hand col. ; 54 x 42 cm. Published in William Roscoe, Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanical Gardens atLiverpool, pl. 81. Botanical illustration of a member of the ginger (Zingiberaceae) family. (NOTE: Maas says this is Costus arabicus, Monograph No. 8.) |