IDENTIFIED AS: | Costus juruanus 'Dazzler' |
DATE COLLECTED: | 3/5/2018 0:00:00 |
ORIGIN: | Collected in Peru, Madre de Dios, Tambopata km 9. |
STATUS: | Alive |
LATITUDE: | -12.652 |
LONGITUDE: | -69.185 |
ELEVATION (meters): | 200 |
VOUCHERS DEPOSITED TO: | BH |
CLONE DISTRIBUTED TO: Botanical garden/Status P=planted out, N=in nursery, D=dead, U=unknown | NTBG 20190826/P, Fairchild 2019-1187/P, Naples/U |
INATURALIST ID: | 35225165 |
CORNELL DNA CODE: | CJG18_332_S102 |
DESCRIPTION: | This accession grows to about 0.7 meters tall. Sheath, ligules, petioles and leaves both sides all glabrous. Ligules are 22 mm long and lobed; petioles are 13 mm long. Leaves are distinctively large and silvery grey in color, not plicate, 37 cm long by 16 cm wide. Inflorescence terminal on a leafy stem. Bracts dark red, sub-appendaged with margins curled inward, reflexed at apex, indistinct yellow nectar callus. Flowers yellow, tubular, dark red at apex, abaxially oriented. |
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