WorldFloraDB - Globba schomburgkii

Characteristics

Pseudostems 30--50 cm. Leaves 5 or 6; ligule short; petiole ca. 5 mm; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate, 15--20 × 3--4.5 cm, glabrous, base obtuse, apex caudate. Inflorescence a pendulous raceme or thyrse, 3--11 cm; bracts lanceolate, 6--12 mm; cincinni (if present) 1--2.5 cm, laxly 2-to many flowered; bulblets present, globose or ovoid, 2--4 mm in diam., tuberculate. Flowers yellow or wholly reduced. Calyx campanulate, 4--5 mm. Corolla tube 8--10 mm, pubescent; lobes ovate. Lateral staminodes lanceolate, curved. Labellum yellow, orange spotted at base, narrowly cuneate, apex 2-cleft. Filament curved, ca. 1 cm; anther with 2 winglike appendages on each side. Ovary tuberculate. Fl. Aug--Sep.

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A ginger family herb. It forms clumps. It has false stems 30-50 cm tall. There are 5-6 leaves. The leaf blade is narrowly sword shaped. They are 15-20 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. The flowering shoots hang down. They are 3-11 cm long. There are bulblets. The flowers are small and yellow.

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Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Environment

It is a tropical plant. In southern China it grows at about 1,300 m above sea level. In Queen Sirikit BG. In Yunnan.

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The young leaves are steamed as a vegetable.

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