Globba sessiliflora

Rhizomatous herbs; rhizome small, 3 x 0.2 cm, conical, light yellow-grey inside; roots many, thick and fleshy, root tubers elongated. Leaf shoots 30-90 cm tall, lower vegetative bracts green to reddish-green, sparsely pubescent. Leaves shortly petiolate or sessile; ligule 2-3 mm long, membranous, bipartite, densely pubescent; lamina 5-20 x 2-5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, tip acuminate, lower surface densely pubescent, upper surface sparsely pubescent. Inflorescence terminal, 10-20 cm long, erect, bearing few to many slender branches in the axils of bracts, lower bracts subtend small, downwardly pointed conical bulbils; bracts small, 5 x 2 mm, ovate, prominently 3-nerved, glabrous, greenish-yellow, each fertile bracts subtends a cincinnus of 2 many flowers on a 4 mm stalk; bracteoles small, 3 x 2 mm, triangular, orange. Flowers 3.5-4 cm long, orange. Calyx truncate, 8 mm long, shortly 3-lobed, lobes equal, glabrous, greenish to yellowish-green. Corolla tube 1.8-2 cm long, orange, densely pubescent; lobes unequal, spreading; dorsal lobe c. 6 x 3 mm, cup-shaped with an apical hood, orange-yellow, lower middle portion minutely pubescent; lateral lobes c. 5 x 3 mm, ovate, orange-yellow, glabrous. Labellum much longer than the corolla lobes, 12 x 4 mm, linear, tip emarginate, orange-yellow, glabrous. Lateral staminodes c. 16 x 3 mm, linear, tip acuminate, orange, outer surface pubescent. Filament c. 2 cm long, slender, white, orange towards tip; anther small, c. 4 mm, thecae parallel, without any appendages, connective slightly projecting to form a hood at the tip. Style long, exserted from the anther lobes, mouth of the stigma hairy. Ovary 2 x 1 mm, wall smooth, unilocular with many ovules on three parietal placentae. Fruit c. 2 x 1.5 cm, globose to ovoid, slightly warted, dehiscent; seeds ovoid, hairy throughout, with a basal, lacerate aril.  

Common in south-central Myanmar and the Western Ghats of India. In Thailand, only known from a few localities in Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces. Recorded to occur from 200 to 375 m asl in Thailand.

Globba ophioglossa

Plant list has treated like this. Globba sessiliflora Sims (= Globba ophioglossa Wight).

This herb was spotted en-route Munnar.
Looks like Globba sessiliflora? Pl. confirm the ID..
Family: Zingiberaceae

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  emonocot  India Biodiversity Portal  IUCN Red List (LC)