Common name:
Family: Costaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: SE. Colombia to E. Ecuador
Description:
Uses:
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USDA Zone:
Source: Kress Collection, SI#1990016
Provenance:
Kress# 90-3124
Kress, W. J.
Colombia: Caqueta
road between Belem and San Jose
21 Sep 1990
Restrictions:
Culture:
Rhizome geophyte
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Costaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe:
- SubTribe:
References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Friday, 12 July, 2019.
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