Costus curvibracteatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zingiberales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Costaceae
Genus: Costus
Species: Costus curvibracteatus

Name

Costus curvibracteatus Maas, Acta Bot. Neerl. 24(5–6): 473. 1975 [1976].

Synonymy

Misapplied names
- Costus scaber sensu Woodson in Woodson & Schery, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29(4): 330(–331). 1942. – Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 32(1): 72. 1945. – non Costus scaber Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. 1: 2. 1798.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Southern America Central America Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama. Western South America Colombia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Maas, P.J.M. 1972. Costoideae (Zingiberaceae). (Flora Neotropica, Monograph 8.) 140 pp. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. JSTOR Reference page. (as Costus spec. A)
Maas, P.J.M. & Maas-van de Kamer, H. 2003. Costaceae. Pp. 413–423 in Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica, Vol. II, Gimnospermas y Monocotiledóneas (Agavaceae–Musaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 1-930723-22-9. BHL Reference page.
Woodson, R.E., Jr., Schery, R.W. 1945. Zingiberaceae. In Flora of Panama, Part III, Fascicle 1. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 32: 57–73. DOI: 10.2307/2394547 BHL JSTOR Reference page. (as Costus scaber)
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Costus curvibracteatus. Published online. Accessed: 08 December 2018.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Costus curvibracteatus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 12 08. Reference page.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Costus curvibracteatus.
Hassler, M. 2018. Costus curvibracteatus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 December 08. Reference page.

Tropicos.org 2018. Costus curvibracteatus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 December 2018.
Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Costus curvibracteatus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 December 2018.

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