Accession Data

Costus scaber

Common Name: Indan Head Ginger

Family: Costaceae

Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900154

Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3313

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994714

Provenance:

Kress# 94-5280
ex hort.- From Lyon Arboretum
Jun 1995

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Costaceae

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  3. 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 Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.

Images

Costus scaber
Costus scaber