| Christmas costus | |
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| Cultivated in São Paulo, Brazil | |
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| At Hawaii Botanical Garden | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Costaceae |
| Genus: | Costus |
| Species: | C. chartaceus
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| Binomial name | |
| Costus chartaceus | |
Costus chartaceus, commonly known as the Christmas costus, is a perennial plant with a red inflorescence first described by Paul Maas in 1972.12 It is native to Colombia and Ecuador but cultivated as an ornamental in other regions.34 It is not winter hardy.1
Costus chartaceus is similar in appearance to Costus prancei and Costus sprucei. Costus chartaceus is known locally as Caña agria in Spanish, Allpala-shangu in Quichua, Tentemokagi in Huaorani, Úntuntup in Achuar and Jivaro, and Virucaspi in an unidentified language.5
References
References
- Skinner, Dave. "Costus chartaceus". GingersRus. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- Paulus Johannes Maria Maas. 1972. Flora Neotropica 8: 98, f. 45, Costus chartaceus
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Costus chartaceus
- Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador, Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- Maas, P.J.M.; Maas-van de Kamer, H.; André, T.; Skinner, D.; Valderrama, E.; Specht, C.D. (2025). "A revision of the Neotropical Costaceae: results from sixty years of taxonomic struggle". bioRxiv 10.1101/2025.01.15.633188.
External links
External links
- Hawaii Botanical Garden, very nice photo of Costus chartaceus Archived 2015-09-18 at the Wayback Machine