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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.222.87779" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-222-75" ID-Pensoft-UUID="348E6053A6D55787993694B23682FDE9" ModsDocID="1314-2003-222-75" checkinTime="1679617121532" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Maas, Paul J. M., Maas-van de Kamer, Hiltje, Andre, Thiago, Skinner, David, Valderrama, Eugenio &amp; Specht, Chelsea D." docDate="2023" docId="21E5187F33005474943314D0CC978B38" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 222: 75-127" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 222" docPubDate="2023-03-22" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.222.87779" docTitle="Costus obscurus D. Skinner &amp; Maas 2023, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="1" id="348E6053A6D55787993694B23682FDE9" lastPageNumber="75" masterDocId="348E6053A6D55787993694B23682FDE9" masterDocTitle="Eighteen new species of Neotropical Costaceae (Zingiberales)" masterLastPageNumber="127" masterPageNumber="75" pageNumber="75" updateTime="1679617121532" updateUser="pensoft">
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<mods:title>Eighteen new species of Neotropical Costaceae (Zingiberales)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Maas, Paul J. M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Maas-van de Kamer, Hiltje</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Andre, Thiago</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Skinner, David</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Valderrama, Eugenio</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Specht, Chelsea D.</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="21E5187F-3300-5474-9433-14D0CC978B38" authority="D. Skinner &amp; Maas" authorityName="D. Skinner &amp; Maas" authorityYear="2023" class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" genus="Costus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Costus obscurus" order="Zingiberales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obscurus" status="sp. nov.">Costus obscurus D.Skinner &amp; Maas</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
<taxonomicName authorityName="D. Skinner &amp; Maas" authorityYear="2023" class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" genus="Costus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Costus obscurus" order="Zingiberales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obscurus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Costus obscurus</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 14" captionStartId="F14" captionText="Figure 14. Costus obscurus D. Skinner &amp; Maas A cultivated plant from Plowman's type collection showing upright orientation of leaf lamina B inflorescence C cultivated plant showing colours and upright orientation of leaf lamina D photo showing villose indument on leaf sheaths E Indument on adaxial leaf surface F indument on abaxial leaf surface A, B cultivated specimen from Lyon Arboretum, Hawaii L- 81.0901 grown from seeds wild collected by Tim Plowman from the plant accessioned as Plowman 5054 C-F photos taken in Pantiacolla, Madre de Dios, Peru prior to collecting seeds for D. Skinner R 3322, currently in cultivation. Photos A-F by Dave Skinner." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.222.87779.figure14" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/828353" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">14</figureCitation>
) can be recognized by its large, dark green leaves with dark purple undersides and densely whitish villose sheaths. It could superficially be confused with
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="C. erythrophyllus" order="Zingiberales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="erythrophyllus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C. erythrophyllus</emphasis>
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Loes. and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C. acreanus</emphasis>
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(Loes.) Maas, but these species never have densely villose sheaths.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Figure 14.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Costus obscurus</emphasis>
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D.Skinner &amp; Maas
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cultivated plant from
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type collection showing upright orientation of leaf lamina
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inflorescence
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C</emphasis>
cultivated plant showing colours and upright orientation of leaf lamina
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">D</emphasis>
photo showing villose indument on leaf sheaths
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Indument on adaxial leaf surface
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indument on abaxial leaf surface
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cultivated specimen from Lyon Arboretum, Hawaii
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grown from seeds wild collected by Tim Plowman from the plant accessioned as
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C-F</emphasis>
photos taken in Pantiacolla, Madre de Dios,
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prior to collecting seeds for
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">D.Skinner R3322</emphasis>
, currently in cultivation. Photos
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by Dave Skinner.
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<typeStatus>Type</typeStatus>
.
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<collectingCountry name="Peru">Peru</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Madre de Dios">Madre de Dios</collectingRegion>
: Prov. Manu, near
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, on road to
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:21E5187F33005474943314D0CC978B38:159633C0596A1646DE2248E752E51879" country="Peru" municipality="Shintuya" name="Salvacion" stateProvince="Madre de Dios">Salvacion</location>
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,
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,
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,
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<collectorName>Plowman</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>Davis</collectorName>
5054
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(
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USM; isotypes GH, L1483069, L1480371, L1480372)
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Herb</emphasis>
1-1.5 m tall.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Leaves</emphasis>
sheaths 10-20 mm diam; ligule truncate, 10-15 mm long; petiole 8-12 mm long; sheaths, ligule and petiole densely to rather densely whitish villose; lamina narrowly elliptic, 32-45
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9-17 cm, adaxially dark green, rather densely to densely whitish villose, abaxially dark purple, densely to sparsely whitish puberulous, base acute to cordate, apex acuminate (acumen 5-10 mm long).
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Inflorescence</emphasis>
ovoid, 8-13
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5-7 cm, terminating a leafy shoot; bracts, appendages of bracts, bracteole, calyx, ovary, and capsule rather densely to sparsely puberulous.
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abaxially oriented; bracts green in the exposed part, red or green in the covered part, coriaceous, broadly ovate-triangular, 35-45
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
30-35 mm; appendages green, erect, broadly ovate-triangular, 15-20
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
18-20 mm, or almost absent, apex rounded; bracteole boat-shaped, 35-37 mm long; calyx red, 25-27 mm long, deeply split on one side, lobes deltate to broadly triangular, ca. 2 mm long; corolla cream to yellow, ca. 75 mm long, glabrous, lobes narrowly elliptic, 55-60 mm long; labellum pale yellow, distal edge horizontally spreading, broadly obovate, ca. 60-70
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
60-70 mm, lateral lobes strongly striped with pink or red, middle lobe reflexed, with yellow honey mark, margin irregularly dentate to lobulate; stamen white to pink, 35-45
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
12-15 mm, not exceeding the labellum, apex pinkish red, deeply and irregularly lobed, anther 7-8 mm long.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Capsule</emphasis>
ellipsoid, 12-15 mm long.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
Peru (Cuzco,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Huánuco">Huanuco</normalizedToken>
, Madre de Dios, San
<normalizedToken originalValue="Martín">Martin</normalizedToken>
) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Distribution maps for new species of Costaceae. Costus gibbosus - Costus whiskeycola m A Costus gibbosus D. Skinner &amp; Maas B Costus mollissimus Maas &amp; H. Maas C Costus obscurus D. Skinner &amp; Maas D Costus oreophilus Maas &amp; D. Skinner E Costus pitalito C. D. Specht &amp; H. Maas F Costus prancei Maas &amp; H. Maas G Costus pseudospiralis Maas &amp; H. Maas H Costus rubineus D. Skinner &amp; Maas I Costus whiskeycola Maas &amp; H. Maas." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.222.87779.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/828361" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">22C</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Habitat and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">In forests, in wet, shady areas, often in disturbed places, at elevations of 450-1300 m. Flowering in the rainy season.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="75" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Costus obscurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. is known for its leaves having a very dark green adaxial surface and dark purple abaxial surface, and for growing in dark and shady places, hence the specific epithet obscurus (
<normalizedToken originalValue="obscurus">'obscurus'</normalizedToken>
means 'dark, shady,
<normalizedToken originalValue="“indistinct">&quot;indistinct'</normalizedToken>
in Latin). This species might also be considered
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(in English: unclear, uncertain, unknown, or in doubt) because it has been confused by the authors in the past as either
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="C. erythrophyllus" order="Zingiberales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="erythrophyllus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C. erythrophyllus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Loes. or as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C. acreanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Loes.) Maas. Only recently has it been determined to be an undescribed species.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Peru. Cuzco</emphasis>
: Prov. La
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, Distr. Echarati, Cashiriari-3 well site, 5 km S of Camisea River, 700 m, 2 Sep 1998,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Nuñez">Nunez</normalizedToken>
V. et al. 23785
</emphasis>
(F).
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Huánuco">Huanuco</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
: Prov. Leoncio Prado, Puente Pucayaco,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Pucayaco, road from Tingo Maria to Tocache, 570 m, 30 Mar 1976,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Plowman &amp; Kennedy 5775</emphasis>
(U); cultivated in Tocache, besides Maior Plaza, originally collected by
<normalizedToken originalValue="José">Jose</normalizedToken>
Schunke V. at Quebrada Cachiyaco de Lopuna, near Mina de Sal, S of Tocache, 31 Mar 1976,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Plowman &amp; Kennedy 5791</emphasis>
(GH, U); cultivated in Jardin Botanico de Tingo Maria, from material collected by Plowman in Ramal de Aspusana, 65 km N of Tingo Maria, on the border of
<normalizedToken originalValue="Huánuco">Huanuco</normalizedToken>
and San
<normalizedToken originalValue="Martín">Martin</normalizedToken>
, 5 Jul 1978,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
Plowman &amp;
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ramírez">Ramirez</normalizedToken>
R. 7595
</emphasis>
(F, U).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Madre de Dios</emphasis>
: Prov. Manu, Cerro de Pantiacolla,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Palotoa, 10-15 km NNW of Shintuya, 700-1300 m, 16 Dec 1985,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Foster et al. 10937</emphasis>
(F); Pantiacolla, serrania across
<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Alto Madre de Dios from Shintuya, 450-650 m, 28 Oct 1979,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Gentry 27304</emphasis>
(MO, U).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Cultivated material</emphasis>
: Harvard Forest Greenhouses, Petersham, Massachusetts, USA, cultivated from
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Plowman &amp; Davis 5054</emphasis>
, Peru,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Plowman &amp; Davis 5054 A</emphasis>
(F, L); cultivated from Peru,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Huánuco">Huanuco</normalizedToken>
, 8 km NW of Tingo Maria, along quebrada on road to Shinchi Roca, 900 m, 14 Nov 2016,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Skinner R3383</emphasis>
(BH). Peru, Madre de Dios, Pantiacolla, 25 Jan 2013,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Skinner R3322</emphasis>
(UC).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="75" type="notes">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
Plants of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Costus obscurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. have a compact appearance, with leaves closely spaced together along the shoot and generally pointed upward rather than horizontally or drooping. The
<normalizedToken originalValue="leaves">leaves'</normalizedToken>
dark green adaxial surface and dark purple abaxial surface are striking in appearance.
<taxonomicName authorityName="D. Skinner &amp; Maas" authorityYear="2023" class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" genus="Costus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Costus obscurus" order="Zingiberales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obscurus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Costus obscurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be confused with
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C. erythrophyllus</emphasis>
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Loes., but can be distinguished from that species by its shorter, truncate ligule instead of a long and deeply 2-lobed ligule as well as by having smooth rather than (mostly) plicate leaves.
</paragraph>
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This new species has been widely cultivated from the type collection
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.
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journal indicates the distribution of live plants to Marie Selby Botanical Garden and Lyon Arboretum, which is accessioned as L-81.0901. It has sometimes been confused with the famous &quot;El Whiskey&quot; plant from Colombia, but it can be easily distinguished by the indumenta on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces.
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