Globba subscaposa Collett & Hemsl.

Sangvirotjanapat, Sunisa, Denduangboriphant, Jessada & Newman, Mark F., 2019, A taxonomic revision of Globba subsect. Nudae (Zingiberaceae), European Journal of Taxonomy 503, pp. 1-37 : 33-34

Globba subscaposa Collett & Hemsl.

Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 28: 135 (Collett & Hemsley 1890).

Holotype

MYANMAR • Shan State ; 1210–1520 m a.s.l.; 1888; H. Collett s.n. leg.; K.

Distribution and habitat

Only known from the type locality, collected in 1888 in Myanmar, Shan State, 1210–1520 m a.s.l., said to be common above 1200 m a.s.l. throughout the southern Shan Hills.

Notes

Collett & Hemsley placed G. subscaposa in G. sect. Ceratanthera (Horan.) Petersen because it has two anther appendages but the description in the protologue and the appearance of the type convince us that it belongs in G. subsect. Nudae . Dissection of a flower on the type shows that it is morphologically similar to G. insectifera by the shape of the anther appendages of a functionally male flower and its broad lateral staminodes but it differs by its rather clump-forming habit (not tending to grow as solitary shoots), and densely villous indumentum on the leafy stem and inflorescence (vs glabrous to minutely pubescent).