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9.
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; Map 6
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10.
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.
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few-flowered, broadly ovoid to globose, 1.55 by
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, terminating the leafy shoot; bracts, bracteoles, calyx, ovary and capsule glabrous, rarely rather densely covered with erect hairs &lt;
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long.
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1(2) per bract; bracts red, orange-red to red-purple, coriaceous, broadly ovate to ovate, 1.52.5 by
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, callus mostly absent or present and then c.
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long; appendages gener- ally absent; bracteole boat-shaped,
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long, callus
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long; calyx
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long, lobes very shallowly triangular, c.
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long, callus absent; corolla fleshy,
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long, red, orange or yellow, glabrous, tube
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long, lobes narrowly ovate to elliptic,
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long; labellum fleshy, red, orange or yellow, tubular, broadly obovate when spread out, 1523 by
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, margin crenulate; stamen yellow, 1315 by
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, anther
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long.
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obovoid, 910 by
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.
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1.52 by
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="19.[113,765,1282,2156]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
Distribution — Central Africa (both islands São Tomé and Principe and
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(
<emphasis box="[408,636,2045,2068]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Wrigley &amp; Melville 270</emphasis>
) from Annobon (Equatorial Guinea)).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph blockId="19.[113,765,1282,2156]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
Habitat &amp; Ecology — In rainforest. At elevations of
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. Flowering and fruiting: October to January.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="19.[824,1474,173,256]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
Field observations — Unlike most species of
<emphasis box="[1328,1403,173,196]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Costus</emphasis>
, many flowers of the same inflorescence can be at anthesis at the same time.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="conservation">
<paragraph blockId="19.[824,1474,263,464]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
IUCN Conservation Status — Based on an EOO of
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and an AOO of
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2 from three locations which all are only partially protected, while the remainder of these locations show severe habitat degradation (most records are actu-ally very old and the species has not recently been found in those localities), we assess this species as Endangered (
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) B1ab(ii,iii)+2ab(ii,iii).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="19.[824,1475,487,1150]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
Notes —
<emphasis box="[956,1032,487,510]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Costus</emphasis>
<emphasis box="[1042,1148,487,510]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">giganteus</emphasis>
is unique among the African species of
<emphasis box="[944,1019,516,539]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Costus</emphasis>
by the combination of separate flowering shoots, combined with red bracts and yellow, tubular flowers. In these aspects it resembles some Neotropical species like
<emphasis box="[824,1002,605,629]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">C. erythrocoryne</emphasis>
K.Schum. The only other African species of
<emphasis box="[824,899,635,658]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Costus</emphasis>
with the same
<typeStatus box="[1059,1104,635,658]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">type</typeStatus>
of yellow, tubular flowers is
<emphasis box="[1401,1474,635,658]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">
C.
<emphasis box="[824,909,665,688]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">gracillimus,</emphasis>
</emphasis>
a species of much smaller stature from the African continent. The flowers of
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<emphasis box="[982,1117,732,756]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">C. giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have a relatively narrow labellum with upcurved lateral margins and an erect cucullate stamen. The flower presents an open throat to pollinators, in contrast with all other species of African
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<emphasis box="[1155,1230,821,844]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Costus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
where the single fertile stamen closes the throat and visitors have to force their way in. The filament is not flat but rolled inwards lengthwise along its margins, especially at its base. The corolla lobes bend towards each other forming a kind of hood over the stamen and the apex of the stamen is cucullate. This
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of flower is unique to this species. The style of
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<emphasis box="[963,1101,1037,1061]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">C. giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is often persistent after flowering. Young leaf lamina are shiny above, while older ones are dull green. The aril is relatively large, measuring up to 2 times the length of the seed.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="299" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="19.[824,1475,1390,2155]" pageId="19" pageNumber="299">Distribution — West Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone).</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="20.[113,765,174,492]" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">
Habitat &amp; Ecology — Mostly in rainforest, along paths or in open places and/or disturbed areas, often in wet places, at elevations of
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0
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Flowering and fruiting: all year through.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="300" type="conservation">
<paragraph blockId="20.[113,765,174,492]" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">
IUCN Conservation Status — Based on all collections
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. gracillimus</emphasis>
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has an AOO of
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from about 20 locations of which only four are partially protected, while the remainder of these locations are already lost or face severe habitat degradation. If we only use records collected since 1970, this species has only 10 locations left (with an
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of
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), of which the majority is lost or threatened. We therefore assess this species as Vulnerable (
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) A2; B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="300" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="20.[113,765,514,1025]" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">
Notes —
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<emphasis box="[244,437,514,537]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">Costus gracillimus</emphasis>
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is a relatively small herb with a slender spiralling shoot (
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diam), a long ligule (
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long) and relatively small, tubular, fleshy flowers. The leaves of
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<emphasis box="[210,349,602,626]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. gracillimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have relatively narrow and long petioles. The labellum is about as long as the corolla, forming a tube with its longitudinally incurved margins. The majority of plants studied have red bracts with red-orange flowers. However,
<emphasis box="[113,335,729,752]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">Jongkind et al. 11941</emphasis>
from Liberia has green bracts and yellow flowers. Based on the overall similarities of this single collec- tion, we do not believe it to be a separate species but rather a lighter-coloured form of
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<emphasis box="[367,511,817,840]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. gracillimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis box="[113,308,854,878]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">Costus gracillimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has often been misidentified as
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<emphasis box="[653,763,854,878]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. deistelii</emphasis>
K.Schum.
</taxonomicName>
That species, known only from the
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collection
<emphasis box="[113,237,914,937]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">Deistel 498</emphasis>
(
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destroyed), now placed in the synonymy of
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<emphasis box="[113,187,943,966]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, differs from
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<emphasis box="[332,478,943,966]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="300">C. gracillimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by a shorter ligule, longer inflorescence and bracteole, and the presence of a rim at the base of the ligule not completely encircling the shoot.
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