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Costus tappenbeckianus

Costus tappenbeckianus J.Braun & K.Schum.

Accession # R2266 identified as Costus tappenbeckianus from Le Jardin Ombragé
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Photo# 12028 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus ligule and petiole

Photo# 12029 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus basal flower

Photo# 12030 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus terminal flower

Photo# 12031 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus inflorescense

Photo# 12032 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus bracts

Photo# 12033 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus bracts

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Photo# 12035 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus bracteole and calyx

Photo# 12036 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus bracteole

Photo# 12037 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus calyx

Photo# 12038 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus labellum

Photo# 12039 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus corolla

Photo# 12040 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus corolla

Photo# 12041 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus stamen

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Photo# 12043 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus labellum

Photo# 12044 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus labellum

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Photo# 12046 Specimen# R0 Costus tappenbeckianus at Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL terminal flower

Photo# 12047 Specimen# R0 Costus tappenbeckianus at Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL

Photo# 12048 Specimen# R0 Costus tappenbeckianus at Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL

Photo# 12049 Specimen# R0 Costus tappenbeckianus at Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL basal flowers

Photo# 12050 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus at Smithsonian US Bot. Research Greenhouse, Washington, DC USBRG#98-682

Photo# 12051 Specimen# R2266 Costus tappenbeckianus at Smithsonian US Bot. Research Greenhouse, Washington, DC USBRG#98-682

Photo# 12840 Specimen# R0 Costus tappenbeckianus at Waimea Audubon Center, Oahu, Hawaii #77P312

BOTANICAL NAME: Costus tappenbeckianus
SUBGENUS:Epicostus
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PRIMARY SOURCE USED FOR DESCRIPTION:Koechlin - Flore du Gabon, Flore du Cameroun, 1965
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NOTES AND DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:KOECHLIN KEY: Plants with upright stems, with many leaves arranged along the stem, or grouped toward the top. Radical inflorescence (I have seen this both radical and terminal). Plants spindly or lanky, leaves distributed along stem, diversely pubescent, inflorescence is subsessile with few flowers (I have seen this many-flowered, esp. at base). Ligule truncate, up to 5 mm long. Leaves glabrous or a little pubescent on abaxial side, slightly appressed pubescent hairs and mauve colored on the adaxial side. Flowers at labellum margin NOT frayed, tinted pink and white.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION:wet underwoods; known species of Cameroun and Gabon
HEIGHT:0 to 0 meters

Botanical Description for this Species
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Plant Part	General	Color	Hairs	Texture	Shape	Length	Width
Rhizome	creeping rhizome					0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Sheath	A few decimeters high, covered at the base with cylindrical sheaths		fine pubescent			0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 mm
Ligule			fine pubescent		obliquely truncate	0 to 5 mm	0 to 0 mm
Petiole	short, a few mm					0 to 0 mm	0 to 0 mm
Leaf	leaves toward the top				oblanceolate to elliptical	0 to 10 cm	0 to 4 cm
...upper			pubescent along midrib, glabrous to sparse other
...under		reddish	very fine pubescense apprimee
...base					attenuate, slightly rounded
...apex					acuminate	0 to 0 mm
Inflorescence	borne directly from rhizome, producing 2-4 flowers, peduncle 1-3 cm					0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Bract		tinted red		thin	ovate	1.5 to 2.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Appendage	NONE					0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Bracteole	callus at apex				narrow	0.0 to 1.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Flower	single flower per bract					0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Calyx				3 lobed		0.8 to 1.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Corolla		white				0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Labellum		pink with central white zone				0.0 to 6.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Stamen					lobed	0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm

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