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SPECIMEN DESCRIPTION

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Photo# 13149 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13150 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13151 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13152 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13153 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13154 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13155 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13156 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13157 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13158 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13159 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13213 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13214 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13215 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13216 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13217 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13218 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13219 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13220 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13221 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13222 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13223 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13224 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13225 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13226 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13227 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed

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Photo# 13228 Specimen# R2839
Chamaecostus subsessilis
From cultivated, origin assumed


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:

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