FLORA OF VIETNAM
Plants of Yok Don NP and adjacent areas
Costaceae
Costus speciosus

Vietnam, Dac Lac Prov., Buon Don Distr., Krong Na municipality, Yok Don national park, around point 13°04′13”N 107°37′57”E.

Open dry semi-deciduous Dipterocarpus forest and woodlands on thin ferralite gray to brown rocky soils at elevation about 200 m a.s.l.

Terrestrial herb to 0.6 m tall in small wet depression. Flowers white, tube with yellow center. Not common.

HLF 7405 27 March 2008

Coll. N.T.Hiep, Averyanov L., P.K.Loc, N.T.Vinh, N.S.Khang, T.H.Thai, N.V.Trai
Grant from Henry Luce Foundation.