Globba Explained

Globba is a genus of plants in the ginger family: with delicate flowers, sometimes called "dancing ladies" or "dancing girls ginger". Species are native to the Indian Subcontinent, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Queensland.^{[1] [2]}

Species

Plants of the World Online includes:^[1]

1. Globba acehensis - Sumatra
2. Globba adhaerens - Indochina
3. Globba albiflora - western Indochina, peninsular Malaysia
4. Globba albobracteata - Sumatra
5. Globba amnicola - Thailand
6. Globba amplectens - Thailand
7. Globba andersonii - eastern Himalayas
8. Globba angcorensis - Cambodia, Vietnam
9. Globba annamensis - Laos, Vietnam
10. Globba aranyaniae - Thailand to Laos
11. Globba argyrocycnos - Thailand
12. Globba arracanensis - northern Myanmar
13. Globba atrosanguinea - Sumatra, Borneo
14. Globba aurantiaca - Sumatra
15. Globba aurea - Palawan, Busuanga
16. Globba bicolor - Cambodia, Vietnam
17. Globba bokorensis - Cambodia
18. Globba brachyanthera - Sumatra, Borneo
19. Globba bracteolata - Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar
20. Globba brevifolia - Luzon
21. Globba cambodgensis - Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand
22. Globba campsophylla - Philippines
23. Globba candida - Cambodia
24. Globba cataractarum - Thailand
25. Globba cernua - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
26. Globba chekiangensis - Zhejiang
27. Globba chrysantha - Thailand
28. Globba chrysochila - Thailand
29. Globba clarkei - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bangladesh, Thailand
30. Globba colpicola - Thailand
31. Globba conferta - Thailand
32. Globba corneri - Malaysia
33. Globba curtisii - Malaysia
34. Globba dasycarpa - Thailand
35. Globba decora - Thailand
36. Globba depingiana - Yunan
37. Globba emeiensis - Sichuan
38. Globba expansa - Myanmar, Thailand (syn. G. yeatsiana)
39. Globba fecunda - Sumatra
40. Globba flagellaris - Thailand
41. Globba flavibracteata - Sumatra
42. Globba fragilis - Thailand, Langkawi
43. Globba francisci - Sabah, Sarawak
44. Globba garrettii - Thailand
45. Globba geoffrayi - Cambodia
46. Globba glandulosa - Sarawak
47. Globba globulifera - Thailand, Vietnam
48. Globba gracilis - Mindanao
49. Globba grandis - Thailand
50. Globba hasseltii - Sumatra
51. Globba hilaris - Indochina
52. Globba holttumii - Malaysia
53. Globba impar - Vietnam
54. Globba insectifera - Myanmar, Thailand (syn. G. kerrii, G. nuda)
55. Globba integra - Thailand
56. Globba × - Malaysia (G. cernua × G. patens)
57. Globba janae - Laos
58. Globba kanchigandhii - Assam (Nagaland)
59. Globba keithii - Thailand
60. Globba laeta - Myanmar, Thailand
61. Globba lancangensis - Yunnan
62. Globba larsenii - Thailand
63. Globba latifolia - Philippines
64. Globba leucantha - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
65. Globba lilacina - Philippines
66. Globba lithophila - Thailand
67. Globba longiligulata - Thailand
68. Globba luteola - Thailand
69. Globba macrocarpa - Indochina
70. Globba macrochila - Nepal, eastern Himalayas
71. Globba macroclada - Java
72. Globba maculata - widespread through the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia (Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.) as well as Yunnan, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Mer (= Murray Island in Queensland)
73. Globba magnibracteata - Yunnan
74. Globba marantina - widespread in Tropical Asia to Queensland - type species
75. Globba menglianensis - Myanmar
76. Globba mogokensis - Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar
77. Globba mollis - Sumatra
78. Globba multiflora - Borneo
79. Globba multifolia - Sumatra
80. Globba muluensis - Borneo
81. Globba nawawii - Terengganu
82. Globba newmanii - Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia
83. Globba nisbetiana - Thailand
84. Globba nitens - Thailand
85. Globba nitida - Thailand
86. Globba obscura - Thailand
87. Globba orixensis - Bangladesh, eastern India, Myanmar
88. Globba paniculata - Sumatra
89. Globba parva - Indochina
90. Globba parviflora - Philippines
91. Globba patens - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
92. Globba pauciflora - Myanmar, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
93. Globba pelecanthera - Thailand, Laos
94. Globba pendula - Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indochina, western Indonesia, Malaysia, Andaman Islands
95. Globba philippinensis - Philippines
96. Globba platystachya - southern India
97. Globba poomae - Thailand
98. Globba praecox - Thailand
99. Globba praetermissa - Yunnan
100. Globba propinqua - Borneo
101. Globba pumila - Sarawak
102. Globba purpurascens - Thailand
103. Globba pycnostachys - Thailand
104. Globba pyramidata - Cambodia, Vietnam, Mindanao
105. Globba pyrrhopoikila - Sumatra
106. Globba racemosa - Himalayas, southern China, Myanmar, Thailand
107. Globba radicalis - eastern Himalayas
108. Globba rahmanii - Bangladesh
109. Globba ranongensis - Thailand
110. Globba reflexa - Thailand
111. Globba rosea - Laos
112. Globba ruiliensis - Yunnan
113. Globba rupestris - Laos
114. Globba salarkhanii - Bangladesh
115. Globba schomburgkii - Yunnan, Assam, Indochina
116. Globba securifer - Cambodia
117. Globba sessiliflora - India, Myanmar, Thailand
118. Globba sherwoodiana - Assam, Myanmar
119. Globba siamensis - Thailand, Laos, Cambodia
120. Globba sirirugsae - Thailand
121. Globba spathulata - eastern Himalayas
122. Globba subscaposa - Myanmar
123. Globba substrigosa - Myanmar, Thailand
124. Globba talangensis - Sumatra
125. Globba tembatensis - Malaysia
126. Globba thorelii - Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia
127. Globba tricolor - Borneo
128. Globba unifolia - Malaysia, Thailand
129. Globba urophylla - Maluku
130. Globba ustulata - Balabac, Vietnam
131. Globba variabilis - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
132. Globba verecunda - Thailand
133. Globba virginea - N. & W. Sumatra
134. Globba wardii - Mizoram, Myanmar
135. Globba wengeri - Assam, Myanmar
136. Globba williamsiana - Thailand
137. Globba winitii - Thailand, Myanmar
138. Globba xantholeuca - Thailand

External links

• • Pacific Bulb Society, Globba photos of several species
• Floridata, Globba winitii, Common Names: dancing ladies ginger, dancing girls ginger
• Dave's Garden, PlantFiles: Dancing Girl Ginger Globba schomburgkii
• National Tropical Botanical Garden (USA), Globba atrosanguinea

Notes and References

1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37273-1 Plants of the World Online: Globba L.
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=113644 Flora of China v 24 p 358, 舞花姜属 wu hua jiang shu, Globba Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 2: 143, 170. 1771.