 Photo# 16158 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru
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 Photo# 16159 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru
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 Photo# 16160 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru
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 Photo# 16161 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne at Quistococha near Iquitos, Peru
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 Photo# 16162 Specimen# R0 Costus erythrocoryne from Heliconia Farm near Iquitos, Peru
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 Photo# 16268 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne From Peru, Loreto
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 Photo# 16269 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne From Peru, Loreto
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 Photo# 16270 Specimen# R3118 Costus erythrocoryne From Peru, Loreto
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 Photo# 16326 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16327 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne From cultivated,
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 Photo# 16328 Specimen# R3205 Costus erythrocoryne From cultivated,
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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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| 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
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| 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 |
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| .2-.4 mm densely to sparsely puberlo-strigulose
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| 5 to 12 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | strigulosesmaller than 47 cm by 18 cm
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| narrowly elliptic | 18 to 35 cm | 7 to 10 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous, strigulose along costa
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...under | |
| .2-.4 mm densely to sparsely puberlo-strigulose
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...base | |
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| cunate to rounded
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...apex | | | | | long acuminate
| 10 to 20 mm | |
Inflorescence | Basal - on a separate leafless shoot.
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| 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
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| coriaceous
| broadly ovate triangular | 2.5 to 4.0 cm | 2.5 to 4.0 cm |
Appendage | none | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Bracteole |
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| | boat shape
| 0.0 to 2.7 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | yellow | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | 10-19 mm long | |
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| lobes triangular
| 1.0 to 1.5 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | tube 20 mm long | yellow |
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| 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
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| 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
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| | narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, slightly crenulate
| 5.0 to 6.0 cm | 0.5 to 0.7 cm |