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SPECIMEN DESCRIPTION

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Photo# 11343 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11344 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11345 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11346 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11347 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11348 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11349 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11350 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11351 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11352 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11353 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11354 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11355 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11356 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11357 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11358 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11359 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11360 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11361 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11362 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11363 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11364 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11365 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11366 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11367 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11368 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11369 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 11370 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 16799 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 16800 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 16801 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 16802 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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Photo# 16803 Specimen# R2566
Costus osae
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ACCESSION #: 		R2566

IDENTIFIED AS:		 Costus osae

LOCATION:		 Le Jardin Ombragé

SOURCE:		 Plant acquired from Tom Wood. Origin unknown, but this plant is endemic to the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica.

DETERMINATION:		 By Dave Skinner, characters match description by Maas.

GENERAL:		 Medium sized plant, almost 1 meter tall with fuzzy light green leaves and showy red flowers.

RHIZOME :

SHEATH:		 Light green, 12-15 mm in diameter, villose.

LIGULE:		 Short, 3-4 mm hairy like sheath.

PETIOLE:		 Light green, about 10 mm long, hairy.

LEAVES:		 Light green becoming somewhat darker with age, 22-28 cm long by 10-13 cm wide, base cuneate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, acumen 1-2 mm long, densely pubescent both sides.

INFLORESCENCE:		 Terminal on a leafy stem. Red patent bracts with red flowers of matching color (makes flowers blend with bracts.) Tendency to grow plantlets at the base of the inflorescence. Did NOT find any with two flowers per bract-bracteole as described.

BRACTS:		 Red, pubescent (not measured).

APPENDAGE:		 Red, pubescent

BRACTEOLE:		 Distinctive bicarinate (two-keeled) as in Maas description, red, pubescent, 2.8 cm long by 1.1 cm wide (not spread)

CALYX:		 Deeply split on one side, red, pubescent, 1.5 cm long by .7 in diameter.

COROLLA:		 Lobes pinkish red, glabrous to a few minute hairs, dorsal lobe acuminate and hairy at apex, 3.4 cm long by 1 cm wide.

LABELLUM:		 Tubular, glabrous, covered by corolla, but white at base with red tip, apex margin turning brown. About 4 cm long.

STAMEN:		 About the same color and size as labellum, rather rectangular in shape, white at base with red at apex and brown margin, glabrous, 4 cm long by 0.8 cm wide.

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