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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus pilgeri FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Neotropical SYNONYMS: Costus arabicus, BOTANICAL NOTES: Not a valid species - obsolete synonym. Listed on the International Plant Names Index at http://www.ipni.org/ - author listed as K.Schum. 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 arabicus. Specimen at NYBG Herbarium - http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/Costaceae.html Image: Available at http://image.nybg.org/herbim/0611/Name: CostaceaeCostus pilgeri K. Schum. (Isolectotype)det. K. Schum. Image: Available Location: Paraguay. Iter ad Yerbales montium Sierra de Maracayú. In regione fluminis Tapiraguay. Collector: E. Hassler 5974Dec 1900 Description: Fertile. Habitat: Publication: Pflanzenr. (Engler). 404. Other: NY Specimen ID: 320344Specimen notes: Duplicatum ex Conservatorio Botanico Genevensi. |