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Botanical Description page for GingersRus plant database number " 4608 ".

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Costus erythrocoryne

Costus erythrocoryne K.Schum.

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Photo# 16158 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16159 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16160 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16161 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16162 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne from Heliconia Farm near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16268 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne at San Rafael Indian Village, near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16269 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne at San Rafael Indian Village, near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16270 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne at San Rafael Indian Village, near Iquitos, Peru

Photo# 16326 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne at John Mood's garden

Photo# 16327 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne at John Mood's garden

Photo# 16328 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne at John Mood's garden

BOTANICAL NAME: Costus erythrocoryne
SUBGENUS:Costus
GROUP:2-bracts not appendaged
SECTION:II-Ornithophilus
PRIMARY SOURCE USED FOR DESCRIPTION:Maas, Flora Neotropica No. 8, 1972
SECONDARY SOURCES:
LAST UPDATED:
NOTES AND DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:Species closely related to Costus sprialis and Costus geothyrsus. Differs from C. spiralis by yellow flowers and longer calyx. Differs from C. geothyrsus by smaller leaves, yellow flowers and shorter calyx with fibrous margins.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION:Easter Peru, primary rainforest.
HEIGHT:1 to 4 meters

Botanical Description for this Species
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Plant Part	General	Color	Hairs	Texture	Shape	Length	Width
Rhizome						0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Sheath	flowering shoot 50 cm tall, sheaths obliquely truncate, 2-5 cm long, .8-1.6 cm wide		glabrous to sparsely strigulose or villose			0 to 0 cm	10 to 14 mm
Ligule			.2-.4 mm densely to sparsely puberlo-strigulose		truncate	6 to 10 mm	0 to 0 mm
Petiole			.2-.4 mm densely to sparsely puberlo-strigulose			5 to 12 mm	0 to 0 mm
Leaf	strigulosesmaller than 47 cm by 18 cm				narrowly elliptic	18 to 35 cm	7 to 10 cm
...upper			glabrous, strigulose along costa
...under			.2-.4 mm densely to sparsely puberlo-strigulose
...base					cunate to rounded
...apex					long acuminate	10 to 20 mm
Inflorescence	Basal - on a separate leafless shoot.				ovoid, acute or subobtuse	9 to 14 cm	3 to 4 cm
Bract	not velutinous, margins of covered parts delacerating into fiberscallus yellow, 10 mm	red		coriaceous	broadly ovate triangular	2.5 to 4.0 cm	2.5 to 4.0 cm
Appendage	none					0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Bracteole					boat shape	0.0 to 2.7 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Flower		yellow				0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Calyx	10-19 mm long				lobes triangular	1.0 to 1.5 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Corolla	tube 20 mm long	yellow			lobes narrowly elliptic, acute 60 mm by 15 mm	0.0 to 8.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Labellum	lateral lobes rolled inward forming small and tubular labellum, upper margin 5-lobulate, central lobule linear, 6 mm long and 4 lateral ones depressed ovate, 1.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide	yellow			oblong ovate when spread	0.0 to 4.0 cm	0.0 to 2.0 cm
Stamen	far exceeding the labellum, anther 7-8 mm long				narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, slightly crenulate	5.0 to 6.0 cm	0.5 to 0.7 cm

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