Common name: Dancing Girl
Family: Zingiberaceae
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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.
Uses:
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USDA Zone: 9a-11
Source: Logees
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Zingiberaceae
- SubFamily: Zingiberoideae
- Tribe: Globbeae
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References:
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
- 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.
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