PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus pulchriflorus FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Neotropical SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: Not a valid species - obsolete synonym. Specimen at historical botanical collections in the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Described by P. J. M. Maas in Flora Neotropica as a subspecies of C. lanceolatus. - Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas - gopher://nmnhgoph.si.edu:70/0R217674-219444-/.docs/guianas_data//checkl2 - Costus pulchriflorus Ducke =Costus lanceolatus subsp. Pulchriflorus - Flora of China Checklist at http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/index/foctC.html - Lists Costus pulchriflous |