Accession Data

Globba winitii

Common Name: Dancing Girl

Family: Zingiberaceae

Country of Origin: Thailand

Description: A native of Thailand, this species has large, lance-shaped leaves to 8 in (80 cm) long that are heart-shaped at the base. It bears pendent racemes of tubular yellow flowers with large deep pink or purplish reflexed bracts from fall (autumn) to early winter.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9a-11

Accession #: 198500409

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3209

Quantity: 4

Source: Logees

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Zingiberaceae

SubFamily: Zingiberoideae

Tribe: Globbeae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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References

  1. Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
  3. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
  4. Kyle J. Williams, W. John Kress and Paul S. Manos; The Phylogeny, Evolution, and Classification of the Genus Globba and Tribe Globbeae (Zingiberaceae): Appendages Do Matter, American Journal of Botany, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 2004), pp. 100-114 (15 pages). Last accessed on Tuesday, 07 May, 2019.

Images

Globba winitii
Globba winitii