PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Tapeinochilos versteegii FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: Tapeinochilos versteegii Valeton STATUS :Accepted CONTINENT: SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: Osia Gideon Monograph: Listed as a terminal flowering species with recurved bracts, dark red, aging grey to black, apex obtuse or rounded-apiculate, margins toward apex not inflexed. Bract apex rounded-apiculate, pungent; margins toward apex sometimes inflexed, only known from southern New Guinea, from Mimmika in Iran Jaya to Western PNG. No photos or further information found. |