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Accession Data

Globba pendula

Family: Zingiberaceae

Synonym(s): Globba expansa Wall. ex Horan.

Country of Origin: Assam to W. Malesia

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900188

Accession Date: 2019-07-10

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3209

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1996225

Provenance:

Rcvd as Globba expansa Wall.

Kress# 96-5643
Kress, W. J., Bell, D. A., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES), Yin Yin Kyi
Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Pyinmana Township
26 miles west of Moeswe Forest Station.
19.9286, 95.9769, 15 May 1996

Shoots to 50 cm.  Leaves pale green, stem glaucous.  
Inflor. terminal, scape and rachis green.  
Flowers entirely orange.

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
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Last accessed on Sunday, 23 June, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Last accessed on Sunday, 23 June, 2019.
  3. BGCI ThreatSearch. Last accessed on Friday, 28 June, 2019.
  4. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) (as Globba expansa) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.

Images

Globba pendula
Globba pendula