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Gingersrus Database Taxon ID 4003

Costus cernuus


OLD NAME: Costus cernuus

NEW NAME: Costus cernuus

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STATUS : synonym

CONTINENT: Neotropical

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BOTANICAL NOTES:
Not a valid species - obsolete synonym.

Specimen at historical botanical collections in the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Schumann describes this species but does not place it in a subgenus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904.

P. J. M. Maas in Flora Neotropica lists this as an excluded species, replaced by Renealmia cernua.

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