 Photo# 12054 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum bracteole
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 Photo# 12055 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum bracts
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 Photo# 12056 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum bracts
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 Photo# 12057 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum bracts sequence
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 Photo# 12058 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum bracteole and calyx
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 Photo# 12059 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum calyx
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 Photo# 12060 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum corolla lobes
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 Photo# 12061 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum corolla lobes
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 Photo# 12062 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum
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 Photo# 12063 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum
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 Photo# 12064 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum
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 Photo# 12065 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum
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 Photo# 12066 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum
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 Photo# 12067 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum with stamen
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 Photo# 12068 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum labellum with stamen
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 Photo# 12069 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum leaf abaxial side
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 Photo# 12070 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum leaf apex
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 Photo# 12071 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum flower bud shown in bract-bracteole-calyx
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 Photo# 12072 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum petiole and ligule
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 Photo# 12073 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum stamen
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 Photo# 12074 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum stamen
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 Photo# 12075 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum leaf apex
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 Photo# 12076 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum ligule
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 Photo# 12077 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 12078 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 12079 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 12080 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 12081 Specimen# R1394 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 12082 Specimen# R0 Costus varzearum at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami,
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 Photo# 12841 Specimen# R0 Costus varzearum at Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, Hawaii
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 Photo# 12842 Specimen# R0 Costus varzearum at Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, Hawaii
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 Photo# 17274 Specimen# R2994 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 17275 Specimen# R2994 Costus varzearum
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 Photo# 17397 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17398 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17399 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17400 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17401 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17402 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17403 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17404 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17405 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17406 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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 Photo# 17407 Specimen# R3282 Costus varzearum 'Maldonado' form
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Botanical Description for this Species
For illustrations or explanation of terminology, click on the linked plant part or column header.
Descriptions used for plant identification key are shown in BOLD. Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
Rhizome |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Sheath |
| green, tinged purple-red
| glabrous to densely hairy
| scabrid | | 0 to 0 cm | 10 to 15 mm |
Ligule | unequally 2 lobed
| purplish | glabrous to densely hairy
| | lobes rounded
| 20 to 30 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
| purplish
| densely hairy like sheaths
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| 5 to 10 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | Leaves not plicate, apex ending in a densely hairy filiform point
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| elliptic-obovate | 13 to 25 cm | 5 to 10 cm |
...upper | | green
| glabrous
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...under | | red-purple
| densely puberulous
| soft | | | |
...base | |
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| cuneate to obtuse
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...apex | | | | | acute to very shortly acuminate
| 2 to 4 mm | |
Inflorescence | terminal on 3-7 leaved shoot
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| ovoid
| 4 to 6 cm | 3 to 4 cm |
Bract | all bracts with foliaceous, green appendages, or apices of all bracts reflexed., callus dark green | pinkish red
| densely, appressed hairs
| coriaceous
| ovate | 2.0 to 2.5 cm | 1.0 to 1.8 cm |
Appendage | 5-15 mm by 8-16 mm, horizontally spreading | green | densely puberulous
| foliaceous
| triangular-ovate, rounded apex | 0.5 to 1.5 cm | 0.8 to 1.6 cm |
Bracteole |
| pinkish red
| densely puberulous
| | boat shape
| 1.5 to 1.8 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | 8-10 mm | pinkish red | densely puberulous
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| lobes shallow triangular
| 0.8 to 1.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.6 cm |
Corolla | 47-55 mm, tube yellow 10-20 mm | yellow to pink |
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| 4.7 to 5.5 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum | large, spreading limb, lateral lobes reddish striped, middle lobes reflexed, 40-45 mm by 25-28 mm
| creamy white to pale yellow
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| narrowly ovate
| 4.0 to 4.5 cm | 2.5 to 2.8 cm |
Stamen | gradually narrowed towards red apex, anther 6-7 mm long
| creamy white |
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| 3.5 to 3.8 cm | 0.7 to 0.8 cm |