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Gingersrus Database Taxon ID 7844

Costus sp. Tapanti


OLD NAME: Costus possible sp. nov. unnamed

NEW NAME: Costus sp. Tapanti

NAME CHANGE NOTES: Possible sp. nov., as yet undescribed and unnamed, found in the region of the Tapanti National Park in Costa Rica

FULL SCIENTIFIC NAME: Costus L.

STATUS : sp. nov. unnamed

CONTINENT: Neotropical

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BOTANICAL NOTES:
This phenotype is proposed for future publication, but has not yet been described or given a proposed species name.

I have been twice to the Tapantí National Park in Cartago, Costa Rica and have seen a form of Costus that I believe to be an undescribed new species. These plants fit best in the species Costus sinningiiflorus as it is being newly described as a proposed replacement for Costus guanaiensis var. guanaiensis. There are several definable forms of C. sinningiiflorus, but they are all from Amazonian regions of South America. This form seems to be endemic to central Costa Rica, found at middle elevations around 1200 meters in the province Cartago. The entire plant is densely covered with villose brown hairs and the inflorescence is globular in shape with tight crenulate bract appendages and yellow open-labellum flowers with red stripes. It is much taller than the Amazonian plants in C. sinningiiflorus, ranging from 4 to 5 meters tall!

The photos below are from my observations at P. N. Tapantí. I have identified five specimens in herbaria that I believe belong to this proposed new species, images also below.

It has not been sampled for DNA.

HORTICULTURAL NOTES:
I have not collected this form and to my knowledge it is not in cultivation anywhere.

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Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 562 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
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Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 564 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 565 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
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Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 567 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 568 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 569 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 570 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 571 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí


Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí - Click to see full sized image
Photo# 572 Accession# R0
Costus aff. sinningiiflorus - sp. nov. Tapantí