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18.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[864,1120,779,802]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">Costus maboumiensis</emphasis>
Pellegr.
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Pellegr. (1929)
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220. —
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Terrestrial herb
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tall.
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many; sheaths
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diam; shoots reddish, sheaths green with reddish margin, ligule chartaceous, truncate to 2-lobed,
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long; petiole
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long, tinged with reddish brown; sheaths, ligule and petiole glabrous; lamina narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly obovate, 1530 by
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, glabrous on both sides, base acute, the very base sometimes obtuse to cordate, apex acuminate (acu- men
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long).
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many-flowered, ovoid to subglobose, 410 by
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, terminating a separate leafless shoot
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long; bracts, appendages of bracts, bracteoles, calyx and ovary glabrous.
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1 per bract; bracts somewhat bulging, pale to bright green, sometimes with narrow dark red margin, coriaceous, ovate to broadly ovate, 22.5 by
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, callus green to yellow, generally present,
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long; appendages absent or present, green, horizontally spreading, ovate-triangular, 14 by
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; bracteole boat-shaped,
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long, callus whitish,
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long; calyx pale green to white,
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long, lobes broadly ovate-triangular,
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long, callus absent or present and then &lt;
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long; co- rolla hyaline, reddish brown to purplish grey to white,
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long, glabrous, tube
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long, lobes with dark red margins, narrowly ovate,
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long; labellum at the outer basal part whitish, outer upper part reddish brown to purplish grey, inner side white with yellow to white central nectar guide and brown purplish-striped lateral parts, funnel-shaped, broadly obovate when spread out, 3540 by
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, margin crenu- late; stamen white, c. 30 by
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, apex white with narrow pink margin, anther
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long.
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and
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not seen.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[825,894,2111,2129]" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">Map 12</emphasis>
Distribution of
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<emphasis box="[1041,1237,2110,2129]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">Costus maboumiensis</emphasis>
Pellegr.
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(■) and
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<emphasis box="[1394,1476,2110,2129]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">C. nimba</emphasis>
H.Maas &amp; Maas
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(●).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[113,179,2136,2154]" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">Map 11</emphasis>
Distribution of
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<emphasis box="[321,503,2136,2154]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="307">Costus lucanusianus</emphasis>
J.Braun &amp; K.Schum.
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<paragraph blockId="28.[113,765,174,959]" box="[144,548,672,695]" pageId="28" pageNumber="308">Distribution — Central Africa (Gabon).</paragraph>
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Habitat &amp; Ecology — In primary or secondary rainforest. At elevations of
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0
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Flowering and fruiting: October and November.
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IUCN Conservation Status —
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<emphasis box="[456,689,789,813]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="308">Costus maboumiensis</emphasis>
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and occurs in five locations (we consider the southern and northern Doudou Mountains as two locations) of which only one partly has a protected status, while the others are in areas with more or less logging pressure. We assess the species as Endangered (
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) B2ab(ii,iii).
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Notes —
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<emphasis box="[243,476,982,1005]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="308">Costus maboumiensis</emphasis>
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is recognizable by a combi- nation of the following characters: inflorescence terminating a separate shoot covered with reddish brown sheaths and reddish brown flowers, a colour never seen in any other African species. Furthermore all parts of the plant lack indument.
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<emphasis box="[113,350,1136,1159]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="308">Costus maboumiensis</emphasis>
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shares with
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a basal inflorescence, but strongly differs by the colour of the flowers, which are dark reddish brown in
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<emphasis box="[341,524,1195,1218]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="308">C. maboumiensis</emphasis>
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and white in
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.
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