PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus fissiligulatus FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: Costus fissiligulatus Gagnep. STATUS :synonym CONTINENT: African SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: This African species is placed in synonymy with Costus phyllocephalus (PID3757) 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) The African Plant Database lists this species. Biology : Slender herb, 50 cm tall, with spirally twisted shoots; leaf blades oblanceolate, asymmetric,Ecology : Ecology not recorded; 5-800 m alt. Comprises 2 vars.: - var. fissiligulatus; - var. major Gagnep. With longer ligule, blade 20-22x7-12 cm, lower bracts 11-20 cm long. Costus fissiligulatus Gagnep. [family COSTACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., ser. 4, 2: 93 (1902); Koechlin in Fl. Gabon 9: 78, t. 17, and in Fl. Cam. 4: 86, t. 18. W3Tropicos - http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/pick.html - Costus fissiligulatus Gagnep. Author(s): ORSTOM Date: 1988 Publication: List of Vascular Plants of Gabon with Synonymy Schumann describes this species and places in subgenus Eucostus - Das Pflanzenreich IV, 1904. http://plants.jstor.org/taxon/costus.fissiligulatus |