Costus osae
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Costus osae is a species ofthe Costaceae family . It is endemic to a small area in Costa Rica and Colombia and was first described in 1997.
features
Costus osae is an herbaceous plant and reaches a height of up to 1 meter. The few leaves are densely hairy and obovate to elliptical.
The cone-like, terminal inflorescences are 6 to 8 centimeters long and 4 to 6 centimeters in diameter, while ripe they are up to 10 centimeters long. The bracts are red to orange-red. The calyx is reddish to red-orange, the crown pink to red with a dark red tip, the tubular labellum white with a red outer end.
distribution
Costus osae is endemic to the Golfo Dulce region in Costa Rica and Colombia, it inhabits very wet primary forests in the plain, mainly along small rivers.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1997 by Paulus Johannes Maria Maas and his wife Hillegonda Maas-van de Kamer .
literature
- Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weissenhofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests Costa Rica. In: Stapfia. Volume 78, Linz 2001, p. 129, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3-85474-072-7 , PDF on ZOBODAT
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Costus osae. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
