Costus spectabilis

Yellow trumpet
Plate by Matilda Smith (1854–1926)
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Costaceae
Genus: Costus
Species:
C. spectabilis
Binomial name
Costus spectabilis
Synonyms
  • Cadalvena dalzielii C.H.Wright
  • Cadalvena pistiifolia (K.Schum.) Baker
  • Cadalvena spectabilis Fenzl
  • Costus pistiifolius K.Schum.
  • Kaempferia spectabilis (Fenzl) Baker
  • Kaempferia spectabilis Bentham & Hooker

Costus spectabilis, commonly known as the yellow trumpet, is an African, gregarious species of herb; low and perennial, it is found from Sierra Leone to Sudan to as far south as Angola and Zimbabwe.