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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus pubescens 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 S.Moore 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. |