Globba schomburgkii Hook.f., Bot. Mag. 103: t. 6298 1877. (Syn: Globba chinensis K.Schum.); . E. India to China (S. Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Cambodia, China South-Central, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . Dancing ladies, Dancing Girl Ginger; . Plants 30-60 cm tall, rhizome conical, small, 1 x 0.5 cm, light yellowish to grey inside, with many white, fusiform root tubers 4 x 0.5 cm in size; roots many, thick, fleshy; stem slender, fleshy, slightly swollen near the rhizome; lower vegetative bracts purple, lower one third fused and upper two third open; solitary bulbils at each node, opposite to the attachment of the leaves. Leaves 6-8, upper surface glabrous, lower surface minutely pubescent; upper leaves larger, green, 15-20 x 4-5 cm, oblong lanceolate, tip acuminate, shortly petioled, 0.4 cm, ligulate, ligule short, membraneous 0.2 cm, tripartite, minutely pubescent. Lower leaves smaller, ovate, 3 x 2 cm, upper surface green, lower surface purple. Inflorescence terminal, 8-10 cm, decurved, peduncle slender, green, short, bracts many, lax, spreading, persistent, glabrous; lower bracts green, large, ca 1 x 0.8 cm, broadly ovate, smaller towards the apex, each subtending on or more spherical bulbils; upper bracts fertile, smaller, ca 0.6 x 0.6 cm; ovate, light orange, turning to light green when mature, each bract subtends a cincinni of 4-5 flowers of small stalks, the lower ones 1. cm long to the first flower, bearing a succession of 4-5 flowers in two ranks on very short pedicels, altogether 3-4 cm long. Secondary bracts 0.3-0.6 x 0.2-0.4 cm, orange. Calyx truncate, 0.4-0.6cm, shortly 3 lobed, lobes unequal, orange yellow glabrous. Corolla tube longer than the calyx, 1.5 cm long, hairy, recurved, orange, lobes ovate, cup shaped, 0.4 cm, glabrous. Staminodes longer than the corolla lobes, 1.2 x 0.3 cm, tip slightly curved upwards, orange, glabrous. Lip 1. 0.4 cm, triangular glabrous, with divergent lobes, which hardly reach the attachment of the petals, orange, with a reddish patch at the centre. Filaments 2.5 cm long, upcurved, anther small, the pollen sacs parallel bearing two spreading and somewhat divergent, narrowly triangular appendages on each side. Ovary 0.2 cm, rugose, unilocular with 3 parietal placentae, several ovules on each placenta; style long filiform, stigma cup shaped, slightly exerted from the anther lobes. Epigynous gland one, linear 0.3 cm long. Fruiting rare, rugose. Flowering and fruiting: July-October Evergreen forests Indo-Malesia (Ref. India Biodiversity Portal) .
Id please : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Please identify the following plant. It was photographed at Botanical garden, Howrah district, West Bengal yesterday. pl check for some sp of Globba Globba andersonii from me Globba schomburgkii
date/time: November 08 location: Panipat, Haryana This plant was found growing in a nursery bed near my house, unfortunately I never reported it again. Attached pics are not of good quality, but may give some clues. – Pl refer to the following link http://www.gingersofindia.com/
Araceae, Arecaceae and Zingiberaceae Fortnight: Zingiberaceae: Globba schomburgkii : Attachments (2). 3 posts by 3 authors. Please find the photos of ‘dancing lady’ of ginger family, Globba schomburgkii Beautiful dolls, thanks for sharing
IBG today : Zingiberaceae : may be Globba schomburgkii Hook.f. : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (5). This may be the same as – efi thread Affirmative, Globba schomburgkii only Yes, … I photographed it a couple of years but got out of season rain. Beautiful flowers, very aptly named “dancing ladies”… I sat in the rain and watched them for a few minutes…. Thanks … for your affirmation. It reminds me of dancing lady we used to make out of candy wrappers! Two wrappers of ‘lords jelly candy’ make a lady with red gown! That was four decades ago! I have taken such like last year
This should be G. schomburgkii
Fwd: [efloraofindia:211083] ZINBERACEAE ID from Bangladesh SM 185 1 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) The yellow flowered one is Globba schomburgkii, commonly known as Dancing ladies
Identification of plant : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Can someone identify plant. Yellow flower with broad leaves. Globba sp. Zingiberaceae yes it has nice lyrical name too. dancing lady or dancing girl ginger. globba sp. flowers in wet humid monsoon. further classification it seems needs a lot of details… It is Globba schomburgkii.
Location: Kolkata, India Date: 8 September 2017 Elevation : 25 ft. Where? Wild? Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden Globba schomburgkii
Re:Globba species : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Location Kalimpong, Darjeeling, West Bengal Kindly identify Globa schomburgkii I agree with you. It is Globba schomburgkii        
. Fwd: Globba schomburgkii Hook. f. : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (2)- 3 mb each. Attachments (2)- 3 mb each. . Regarding identification of the species collected from Khurda Odisha on July 24: Mixed thread: 5 correct images in the beginning. Globba schomburgkii Hook.f. ??
. References: POWO The Plant List 1 The Plant List 2 Flora of China Flowers of India India Biodiversity Portal Globba schomburgkii Globba schomburgkii – Dancing Ladies Zingiberaceae PlantFiles: Picture #2 of Dancing Girl Ginger (Globba schomburgkii) |
Globba schomburgkii
Updated on December 24, 2024