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 Photo# 13149 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13150 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13151 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13152 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13153 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13154 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13155 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13156 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13157 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13158 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13159 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13213 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia |
 Photo# 13214 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - bicarinate bracteole |
 Photo# 13215 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - bicarinate tubular bracteole |
 Photo# 13216 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - bracts with bracteole and calyx intact |
 Photo# 13217 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - bracts with leafy appendages |
 Photo# 13218 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - calyx |
 Photo# 13219 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - calyx |
 Photo# 13220 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - corolla lobes |
 Photo# 13221 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - detail of sheath |
 Photo# 13222 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - detail of sheath |
 Photo# 13223 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - leaf |
 Photo# 13224 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - leaf apex |
 Photo# 13225 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - root system showing root tubers and small rhizomes |
 Photo# 13226 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - root system with intermittent shoot |
 Photo# 13227 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - small bulbil at base of sheath |
 Photo# 13228 Specimen# R2839 Chamaecostus acaulis (was subsessilis) cultivated plant from Bolivia - stamen |
ACCESSION #: | R2839 |
IDENTIFIED AS: | Chamaecostus subsessilis |
LOCATION: | Le Jardin Ombragé |
SOURCE: | Plant in horticulture, origin unknown. |
DETERMINATION: | By Dave Skinner, characters match description by Maas. |
GENERAL: | Unlike any other Costus, short (to about 25 cm) with felty leaves and bright yellow flowers. |
RHIZOME : | |
SHEATH: | No visible sheath, leaves appear to extend from below the surface of the ground. |
LIGULE: | No visible ligule. |
PETIOLE: | No visible petiole, lamina seems to come up from the ground, did not dig up rhizome to examine in detail. |
LEAVES: | Medium green, undersides a slightly lighter shade of green, thick pubescense with a soft felty feel, to 30 cm long by 9 cm wide, acuminate apex with a 3 cm acumen. |
INFLORESCENCE: | |
BRACTS: | Light green, pubescent , linear, 4 cm long by 0.8 to 2.0 cm wide. |
APPENDAGE: | Dark green, pubescent, foliaceous, acuminate, hard to distinguish from the leaves, 1.7 - 5.0 cm long by 1.2 to 3.0 cm wide. |
BRACTEOLE: | Pale green, pubescent, bicarinate with 2 apex points, 3.8 cm long by 1 cm wide. |
CALYX: | Pale green, pubescent, lobes acute, 3.5 cm long by 1 cm wide. |
COROLLA: | translucent white, pubescent, 5 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. |
LABELLUM: | Golden yellow with orange throat, glabrous, round, spreading and open, 7 cm long by 9 cm wide. |
STAMEN: | Golden yellow, pubescent, apex broadly dentate, 3.5 cm long by 1.8 cm wide. |
STIGMA: | |
OTHER: | |