 Photo# 11134 Specimen# R2611 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 11135 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus by Enid Dolan Offolter, Natural Selections Exotics, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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 Photo# 16753 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16752 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16751 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16762 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16759 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16758 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16756 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16761 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16757 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16755 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16760 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16750 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus at San Pedro, Peru near Iquitos
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 Photo# 16749 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus, herbarium at Rio de Janeiro
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 Photo# 16754 Specimen# R0 Costus longebracteolatus
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 Photo# 16824 Specimen# R3062 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16823 Specimen# R3062 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16822 Specimen# R3062 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16825 Specimen# R3062 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16826 Specimen# R3062 Costus longibracteolatus From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16859 Specimen# R3126 Costus longibracteolatus From Peru, Loreto
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 Photo# 16858 Specimen# R3126 Costus longibracteolatus From Peru, Loreto
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 Photo# 16857 Specimen# R3126 Costus longibracteolatus From Peru, Loreto
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Botanical Description for this Species
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Descriptions used for plant identification key are shown in BOLD. Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
Rhizome |
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| densely brownish strigose
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| 0 to 0 cm | 20 to 25 cm |
Sheath |
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| densely hirsute to strigose
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 10 to 15 mm |
Ligule | 10-15 mm long
| | densely hirsute to strigulose
| | truncate
| 10 to 30 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| densely hirsute to strulose
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| 0 to 0 mm | 10 to 0 mm |
Leaf |
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| narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate | 22 to 48 cm | 6 to 17 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous to densely strigulose
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...under | |
| densely strigose
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...base | |
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| cunate to round
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...apex | | | | | shortly acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence | Basal - on a separate leafless shoot 50cm high.
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| ovoid
| 7 to 25 cm | 5 to 10 cm |
Bract | not velutinous, callus 5-15 mm | exposed green or red-tinged , red underneat
| glabrous to densely strigose
| coriaceous
| acute, apex slightly curved outwards | 4.5 to 7.5 cm | 3.0 to 5.0 cm |
Appendage | none?, inferiores appendice? | |
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| widely ovate-triangular | 0.5 to 2.2 cm | 0.8 to 1.9 cm |
Bracteole | 32-42 mm long
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| glabrous to densely strigose
| | boat shape
| 3.2 to 4.2 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | 17-22 mm long, lobes 5-10mm | red to orange | glabrous to sparely strigose
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| lobe widely triangular to deltoid
| 1.7 to 2.2 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | | albo-flava, rubro-maculata |
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| 7.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum |
| white, lateral lobes wine red veins
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| widely obovate when spread, margin crispa
| 6.0 to 0.0 cm | 5.0 to 0.0 cm |
Stamen | anther 12 mm
| white, apex pink |
| | narrowly elliptical
| 5.0 to 0.0 cm | 1.2 to 0.0 cm |