Accession Data:
Costus scaber Ruiz & Pav.
- Common Name: Indan Head Ginger
- Family: Costaceae (K. Schum.) Nak.
- Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201900154
- Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994714
- Provenance:
Kress# 94-5280 ex hort.- From Lyon Arboretum Jun 1995
- Accession Date: 07-10-2019
- Bench: 3313 - NEOB: Blue Tanks North
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-15-2024
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Costaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe:
- SubTribe:
References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southeast / Costa Rica / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Trinidad-Tobago / Windward Is. / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil North
References (external):
- 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 Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.
data regenerated on Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:06:12 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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