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Botanical Description page for GingersRus plant database number " 4886 ".

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Costus phaeotrichus

Costus phaeotrichus Loes.

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Photo# 12722 Specimen# R0 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianus at Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, Hawaii #95.0440

Photo# 12723 Specimen# R0 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianus at Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, Hawaii #95.0440

Photo# 12423 Specimen# R0 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianus at Smithsonian Research Greenhouse, Washington

Photo# 12424 Specimen# R0 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianus at Smithsonian Research Greenhouse, Washington

Photo# 11786 Specimen# R2975 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianus from Gabon at Smithsonian US Bot. Research Greenhouse, Washington, DC

Photo# 11787 Specimen# R2975 Costus phaeotrichus syn of C. tappenbeckianusfrom Gabon at Smithsonian US Bot. Research Greenhouse, Washington, DC

BOTANICAL NAME: Costus phaeotrichus
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PRIMARY SOURCE USED FOR DESCRIPTION:Koechlin - Flore du Gabon, Flora 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. Plants spindly or lanky, leaves distributed along stem, diversely pubescent, inflorescence is subsessile with few flowers. Ligule truncate, up to 5 mm long. Leaves (both sides), petioles and sheaths with brown hairs, ligule is short, labellum margin "fimbres", tinted pink and yellow.

Koechlin reported some plants with single leafed stems, larger leaves (20 X 15 cm) with cordate base and glabrous except the costa.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION:forest understory in Gabon and Cameroun
HEIGHT:0 to 0 meters

Botanical Description for this Species
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Plant Part	General	Color	Hairs	Texture	Shape	Length	Width
Rhizome			pubescent	membranaceous scales		0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Sheath		reddish brown	pubescent		irregularly lacerated at top of sheaths	0 to 0 cm	3 to 7 mm
Ligule			pubescent			1 to 1 mm	0 to 0 mm
Petiole		brown	pubescent			1 to 6 mm	0 to 0 mm
Leaf	Few leaves on each stem, sometimes solitary leaf				broadly elliptical	10 to 16 cm	4 to 9 cm
...upper			long brown hairs
...under			long brown hairs
...base					attenuate
...apex					shortly acuminate	0 to 0 mm
Inflorescence	short, borne directly from rhizome, peduncle 1.5-2.0 cm long					0 to 12 cm	0 to 2 cm
Bract		tinted pink			ovate	0.0 to 3.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Appendage						0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Bracteole					etroites, carinate	0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Flower	two flowers per bract					0 to 0 cm	0 to 0 cm
Calyx				membranaceous	irregularly 3 lobed, laterally split	1.0 to 1.2 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Corolla		white				0.0 to 6.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Labellum		pink with yellow blotch			frayed margins	0.0 to 7.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm
Stamen						0.0 to 0.0 cm	0.0 to 0.0 cm

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