Biology:Costus claviger
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Costaceae |
| Genus: | Costus |
| Species: | C. claviger
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| Binomial name | |
| Costus claviger Benoist
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Costus claviger is a species of flowering plant from the genus Costus.[2]
Description
Costus claviger is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.[1]
Distribution
Costus claviger is native to: French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname.[1][3] It preferes to grow on a granitic substrate,[4] i.e. in soil that contains granite.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Costus claviger Benoist" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2022. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66830-2.
- ↑ Benoist, Raymond (1927). "Costus claviger R. Ben. nov. sp." (in French). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Paris: Imprimerie nationale) 33: 270-271. https://archive.org/details/bulletindumuseu33muse/page/270/mode/2up.
- ↑ Funk, V.; Hollowell, T.; Berry, P.; Kelloff, C.; Alexander, S. N. (2007). "Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 86. ISSN 0097-1618. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23493236.
- ↑ Maas, P. J. M. (1972). "Costoideae (Zingiberaceae)". Flora Neotropica 8: 1–139. ISSN 0071-5794. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4393675.
- ↑ "Definition of granitic" (in en). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/granitic.
Wikidata ☰ Q15326051 entry
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