PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus scaberulus 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 scaberulus L.C. Rich. ex Gagnep. =Costus scaber Schumann describes this species and places in subgenus Eucostus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904. Described by P. J. M. Maas in Flora Neotropica under C. scaber. In Panama: http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/index/panamaaC.html - var. x lasius |