Gingersrus Database Taxon ID 7598Costus aureusOLD NAME: Costus aureus NEW NAME: Costus aureus NAME CHANGE NOTES: FULL SCIENTIFIC NAME: Costus aureus Maas & H.Maas STATUS : accepted CONTINENT: African FIELD OBSERVATIONS:(If field observations are available, you can click on the link to open in a new window.) PHOTOS:(If photos are available, you can click on the link to open in a new window.) GOOGLE PHOTO ALBUM SYNONYMS: - Costus luteus A.Chev. (1920) 628, nom. illeg. non Blanco (1837) BOTANICAL NOTES: This African species is newly described 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) Costus aureus is characterized by flowers that are completely yellow and arranged in an inflorescence terminating a leafy shoot and composed of green and generally appendaged bracts. Vegetatively it looks very similar to C. lucanusianus by having a rim at the base of the ligule. However, this rim is hairless in C. aureus, while it is distinctly hairy in C. lucanusianus. — Type: Berg 186 (holo U 4 sheets [U0123675, U0123676, U0123677, U0123678]; iso B, MO, NY), Ivory Coast, near Akoupé (NW of Abidjan), 31 July 1972.
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