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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus niveus FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Neotropical SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: Not a valid species - obsolete synonym. - Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas - gopher://nmnhgoph.si.edu:70/0R217674-219444-/.docs/guianas_data//checkl2 - Costus niveus G. Mey. =Costus arabicus Maas in Flora Neotropica No. 8, lists this as an obsolete syn. for Costus arabicus. Schumann describes this species and places in subgenus Eucostus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904. |