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Datasheet for Costus argenteus

Plant Datasheet for Costus argenteus

PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae
BOTANICAL NAME: Costus argenteus
FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME:
STATUS :
CONTINENT: Neotropical
SYNONYMS: Costus guanaiensis var. macrostrobilus,

BOTANICAL NOTES:
Not a valid species - obsolete synonym for Dimerocostus argenteus.

Listed on the International Plant Names Index at http://www.ipni.org/ - author listed as Ruíz & Pav.

Schumann describes this species and places in subgenus Eucostus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904.

Maas in Flora Neotropica No. 8, lists this as an obsolete syn. for Costus guanaiensis var. macrostrobilus.

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