Photo# 16991 Specimen# R0 Costus quasi-appendiculatus |
Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
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Rhizome | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | |||||
Sheath | | | glabrous to puberulous | 0 to 0 cm | 7 to 15 mm | ||
Ligule | very short, 1-6 mm | glabrous to puberulous | truncate | 1 to 2 mm | 0 to 0 mm | ||
Petiole | | | | | 6 to 8 mm | 0 to 0 mm | |
Leaf | | | narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate | 14 to 32 cm | 4 to 8 cm | ||
...upper | | glabrous | not scabrid to touch | | | ||
...under | | densely velutinous | |||||
...base | | subcordata | | ||||
...apex | shortly acuminate | 0 to 0 mm | |||||
Inflorescence | terminal on a leafy stem. | | | ovoid | 0 to 5 cm | 0 to 3 cm | |
Bract | Tips of bracts slightly reflexed forming a depressed-ovate appendage, callus 4 mm long | red | densely puberulous | coriaceous | widelyovate | 0.0 to 2.5 cm | 0.0 to 3.0 cm |
Appendage | 3-8 mm long, reflexed | red | densely puberulous | | 0.3 to 0.8 cm | 0.5 to 2.0 cm | |
Bracteole | | | densely puberulous | boat shape | 0.0 to 1.6 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | |
Flower | | | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | |||
Calyx | densely puberulous | | lobes triangular | 0.7 to 1.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | ||
Corolla | tube 5-10 mm | densely puberulous | | lobes narrowly obovate | 2.5 to 3.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | |
Labellum | small, tubular | | | | oblong obovate when spread | 0.0 to 2.0 cm | 0.0 to 1.0 cm |
Stamen | apex rounded, anter 6-7 mm long | | narrowly elliptical | 0.0 to 2.2 cm | 0.4 to 0.7 cm |