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Globba winitii ‘Pink’
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Family |
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Zingiberaceae |
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Distribution |
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Naive of Thailand and Vietnam |
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Endemic/Exotic |
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Exotic |
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Uses |
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Ornamental |
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Key
botanical characters: Leafy
shoots slender, 30–40 cm tall, light green in colour. Rhizomes compact, non
tuberous, white. Leaves 6–8 in number, shortly petiolate, 0.4–0.6 cm long,
ligule small, bilobed, sparsely pubescent on midrib. Lamina oblong–
lanceolate, 15–20 × 5–8 cm, margin entire, lower surface minutely pubescent
along the mid rib, upper surface glabrous, apex acuminate, base attenuate.
Inflorescence terminal, drooping, 8–12 cm long, peduncle 3–4 × 0.4–0.5 cm,
pale green. Bracts spirally arranged, reflexed, imbricate and widely
separated, ovate to ovate–oblong pink, glabrous. Flowers orange. |
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