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Gingersrus Database Taxon ID 7363

Costus zechii


OLD NAME: Costus zechii

NEW NAME: Costus zechii

NAME CHANGE NOTES:

FULL SCIENTIFIC NAME: Costus zechii K.Schum.

STATUS : unknown

CONTINENT: African

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BOTANICAL NOTES:
This African species is listed as an "insufficiently known name" in Paul Maas' monograph on African Costaceae, published on 16 December 2016. (Monograph of African Costaceae, H. Maas-van de Kamer, P.J.M. Maas, J.J. Wieringa, C.D. Specht, Blumea 61, 2016: 280 - 318, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea/2016/00000061/00000003/art00010)

This is believed to be an obsolete synonym for Costus dubius.

The African Plant Database lists this species as syn. For C. dubius

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

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