Taxon: Costus spicatus (Jacq.) Sw.

 
Genus: Costus
Family: Costaceae
Nomen number: 426906
Place of publication: Prodr. 11. 1788
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Typification:
Name Verified on: 05-ago-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 19-sep-2017
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

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Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • CARIBBEAN: Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico


References:

  1. Maas, P. J. M. 1972. Costoideae (Zingiberaceae) Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 8:101.
  2. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)

Check other web resources for Costus spicatus (Jacq.) Sw. :

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=426906. Accessed 17 mayo 2024.