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Dancing marantina (Globba marantina)

Dlium Dancing marantina (Globba marantina)

Dancing marantina (Globba marantina) is a species of plant in the Zingiberaceae, herbaceous upright or sideways on the ground, leaves elongated, flowers in panicles with white and yellow colors, fibrous roots and white.

G. marantina has false stems that grow upright or sideways, up to 75 cm long, green with layers of fronds on the outside and arranged alternately, has linear stripes and short white hairs.



The leaves are elongated, 20 cm long, 7 cm wide, pointed tip, flat margins, a large vein in the middle and forming a ditch with several minor veins laterally and forming a cone, the upper surface is green and shiny, the lower surface is pale green.

The inflorescences grow in panicles on a large stalk and are green or white in color and bent downwards. The crown is shaped like a pure white funnel and looks downwards. Pistils are yellow with a curved tip.

This species forms large colonies to produce flowers in the rainy season, grows wild in shady or damp places, at an elevation of 800 meters, red or brown soil or karst. Dries in the dry season.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Subfamily: Zingiberoideae
Tribe: Globbeae
Genus: Globba L. in Mant. Pl. 2: 143 (1771)
Species: Globba marantina L. in Mant. Pl. 2: 170 (1771)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Ceratanthera amomoides Hornem. in Hort. Bot. Hafn. 1: 5 (1813)
Colebrookia bulbifera Donn in Hortus Cantabrig., ed. 3: 1 (1804)
Globba barthei Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 48: 208 (1901)
Globba barthei var. pauciflora Gagnep. in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 39 (1908)
Globba bracteosa Horan. in Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 20 (1862)
Globba bulbifera Roxb. in Asiat. Res. 11: 358 (1810)
Globba ectobolos K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 46(Heft 20): 156 (1904)
Globba heterobractea K.Schum. (1904)
Globba marantina var. pauciflora Gagnep. in Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 39 (1908)
Globba marantinoides Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: 15 (1853)
Globba strobilifera Zoll. & Moritzi in A.Moritzi, Syst. Verz. Java: 84 (1846)
Globba timorensis K.Schum. (1904)
Globba zollingeri Gagnep. (1901)
Lampujang majus Medik. in Hist. & Commentat. Acad. Elect. Sci. Theod.-Palat. 6: 392 (1790)

PUBLICATIONS

Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.

Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.

Newman, M. & Sangvirotjanapat, S. (2023). Flora of Thailand 16(2): 333-747. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.

Nguyen, Q.B. (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 21: 1-489. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội.

Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.

Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 毛舞花姜
Chinese (traditional): 天鵝舞花薑
English: Dancing marantina, Dayang
Finnish: Viherhuiskio
Indonesian: Dayang
Java: Dayang
Russian: Глобба марантовая
Slovak: Globa marantovitá
Taiwan: 天鵝舞花薑
Thai: หงส์เริงระบำ

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