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<mods:title>A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Sam, Yen Yen</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Forest Research Institute Malaysia, 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Ibrahim, Halijah</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. A-D Globba magnibracteata A Habit B Ligule C Inflorescence D Sterile floral bracts E Flower F Bulbils G Flowers of Globba corneri, Globba nawawii and Globba magnibracteata H Globba albobracteata I Globba cernua J Globba corneri K Globba nawawii. (Photographs A-G, I and K by Y. Y. Sam, H by A. Takano, J by Y. M. Chan)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/107972" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Figures 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Globba magnibracteata Y. Y. Sam A Habit B Inflorescence C Sterile bract D Bracteole E Flower F Ovary and calyx G Dorsal corolla lobe in front and side view H Lateral corolla lobe in ventral and side view I Lateral staminodes in ventral and side view J Labellum K Anther appendages L Stigma. Drawn by M. N. Aidil from Sam &amp; Aidil FRI 68959 (KEP)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/107973" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">, 2</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="118">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
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is similar to 
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba albobracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="albobracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
N.E.Br. where both are placed in the subgenus 
<taxonomicName authority="Sempervirens" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba subsp. section" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="section" section="Sempervirens">Globba section Sempervirens</taxonomicName>
. They have the same vegetative morphologies and inflorescence structure but differ in having wide spreading or strongly deflexed white sterile bracts versus the green appressed sterile bracts of 
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba albobracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="albobracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The elliptic fertile bracts of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are smaller (1.1-1.2 cm long) compared to the obovate bracts of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which are about 3 cm long. The cincinnus stalk of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is also shorter (less than 1 cm) than that of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(2-4 cm). 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
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has bulbils with many roots and one bamboo-like shoot distinct from the one-root-one-shoot bulbils in 
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba albobracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="1" pageNumber="118" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="albobracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<typeStatus>Type</typeStatus>
.
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<materialsCitation accessionNumber="FRI 68959" collectingDate="2009-04-21" collectorName="Sam, Aidil" country="MALAYSIA" county="Peninsular Malaysia" latitude="4.6598334" location="Compartment" longLatPrecision="13" longitude="103.08417" municipality="Jengai Forest Reserve" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Terengganu" typeStatus="holotype">
<collectingCountry name="Malaysia">MALAYSIA</collectingCountry>
. 
<collectingCounty>Peninsular Malaysia</collectingCounty>
, 
<collectingRegion country="Malaysia" name="Terengganu">Terengganu</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingMunicipality>Jengai Forest Reserve</collectingMunicipality>
, 
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5, 
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, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="103" direction="east" minutes="05.05" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="103.08417">103°05.05'E</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="2009-04-21">21 April 2009</collectingDate>
, 
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&amp; 
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(
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: KEP; isotypes: E, KLU, SAN, SING)
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="119" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">
Rhizomatous herb, evergreen, 30-70 cm tall, in small clumps of 3-4 leafy stems. Rhizome c. 5 mm diameter, not tuberous. Leafy stems bend on a large curve, basal stem slightly swollen; base to first leaf (18-) 25-32 cm long; first leaf to the uppermost leaf sheath (32-) 42-54 cm long; bladeless sheaths 3-4, pubescent, persistent, lower sheaths purplish when young; leaf sheath pubescent; ligule truncate, pubescent, persistent, 1-2 mm long; leaves 9-13, 3-6 cm apart, almost sessile; lamina narrowly ovate to elliptic, (14)17-22 
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(3.8) 4.3-6.7 cm, adaxial dark green with slightly raised lateral veins, glabrous, abaxial pale green, pubescent, base cuneate, apex attenuate with long acumen. Inflorescence terminal, 13.2-17 cm long, bent downwards in a very broad curve, rachis 
<pageBreakToken pageId="2" pageNumber="119" start="start">pointing</pageBreakToken>
perpendicularly down; peduncle 9.5-11 cm long, green, pubescent, with 4-6 large sterile bracts positioned at the middle part only; sterile bracts elliptic-oblong, largest 4.5-6.5 
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0.7-1.2 cm, white, pubescent, persistent, spreading to strongly reflexed, very lax; rachis 2.7-7 cm long, axis green, pubescent, 7-17 cincinni, lax; fertile bracts elliptic, 11-12 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
c. 4 mm, white, pubescent, spreading to reflexed, persistent; cincinni 6-22 mm long, pubescent, up to 8 mm long to first flower; bracteoles boat shaped, 3-4 mm long, orange. Flowers orange, up to 14 flowers on each cincinnus; pedicel c. 1 mm, green, pubescent; calyx tubular, 3-4 mm long, pubescent, apex trilobed; corolla tube 14-15 mm long, pubescent; dorsal corolla lobe c. 5 mm long, concave, apex hooded, abaxial hairy; lateral corolla lobes c. 4 
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2.5 mm, broadly elliptic, apex rounded, margin curved in when fresh, abaxial hairy; lateral staminodes narrowly ovate, c. 5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5 mm, same length as corolla lobes, spreading, apex acuminate; labellum 5-6 mm long, 2 brown spots in the centre, base bifid, c. 4 mm wide, lobes divergent. Stamen filament c. 17 mm long; anther c. 2 mm long, with 4 appendages; appendages triangular, c. 2.5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1 mm, spreading wide. Ovary c. 2 mm long, orange, pubescent, unilocular; stigma c. 1 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1 mm, clavate, ciliate, ostiole transverse, facing upwards; epigynous glands linear, 2, c. 4 mm long. Fruits globose, glabrous, pale green when young; seeds not observed. Bulbils at the position of last flower in cincinni, many roots and shoots but only one developed into bamboo-like shoot.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Figure 1.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">A-D</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">A</emphasis>
Habit 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">B</emphasis>
Ligule 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">C</emphasis>
Inflorescence 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">D</emphasis>
Sterile floral bracts 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">E</emphasis>
Flower 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">F</emphasis>
Bulbils 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">G</emphasis>
Flowers of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba corneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ibrahim &amp; K. Larsen" authorityYear="1995" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba nawawii" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="nawawii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">H</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba albobracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="albobracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">I</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Baker" authorityYear="1890" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba cernua" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cernua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba cernua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">J</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. A. Weber" authorityYear="1991" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba corneri" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="corneri">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba corneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">K</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ibrahim &amp; K. Larsen" authorityYear="1995" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba nawawii" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="nawawii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. (Photographs 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">A-G, I</emphasis>
and 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">K</emphasis>
by Y.Y. Sam, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">H</emphasis>
by A. Takano, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">J</emphasis>
by Y.M. Chan).
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Figure 2.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Y.Y.Sam 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">A</emphasis>
Habit 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">B</emphasis>
Inflorescence 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">C</emphasis>
Sterile bract 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">D</emphasis>
Bracteole 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">E</emphasis>
Flower 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">F</emphasis>
Ovary and calyx 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">G</emphasis>
Dorsal corolla lobe in front and side view 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">H</emphasis>
Lateral corolla lobe in ventral and side view 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">I</emphasis>
Lateral staminodes in ventral and side view 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">J</emphasis>
Labellum 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">K</emphasis>
Anther appendages 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">L</emphasis>
Stigma. Drawn by M.N. Aidil from Sam &amp; Aidil FRI 68959 (KEP).
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="119" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
The epithet is derived from Latin and refers to the large (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">magnus</emphasis>
) floral bract (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">bractea</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="119" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only known from Jengai Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia. The plants were found scattered on the shady and moist forest floor with a thick humus layer in the lowland dipterocarp forest, a tropical evergreen rainforest.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="119" type="preliminary conservation assessment">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Preliminary conservation assessment.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
Critically Endangered, CR B2ab(iii). 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only found in Compartment 5 in the Jengai Forest Reserve which is a production forest subjected to selective logging on a rotation basis. Timber harvesting will inevitably and adversely affect the quality of the forest, especially the niche environment where the plants are to be found. The population is also very small, less than 20 mature individuals being encountered at the site. Although several extensive botanical collections in other compartments in the same reserved forest were undertaken, no 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
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was sighted. The area of occupancy for 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only 4 km2 plus its small population, thereby qualifying the species to be listed in the Critically Endangered category (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="121" pageId="2" pageNumber="119" type="notes">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="120" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
closely resembles 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Sumatra, Indonesia. Both have about 5-6 pairs of leaves spaced widely on the slender leafy stems and are also similar in lamina shape and size, inflorescence structure and flower colour. The differences lie in the sterile and fertile bracts, cincinni and floral parts. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has large white sterile bracts, which are wide spreading or deflexed, visible even at a far distance. The green sterile bracts of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are of similar size but they are appressed and overlapped on the peduncle making them not readily noticeable. The fertile bract is another distinguishable feature, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
having elliptic and smaller (1.1-1.2 cm) bracts compared to the obovate bracts of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which 
<pageBreakToken pageId="3" pageNumber="120" start="start">are</pageBreakToken>
about 3 cm long. For the cincinni, the stalk of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is clearly shorter, measuring less than 1 cm whereas it is 2-4 cm in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In addition, the corolla lobes, lateral staminodes and labellum of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are consistently smaller compared to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Table 
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Table 1.</emphasis>
Comparison of the morphological characters of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba cernua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba corneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<table pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Characters</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Y. Y. Sam" authorityYear="2016" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba magnibracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="magnibracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba albobracteata" order="Zingiberales" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="albobracteata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba albobracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Takano &amp; Okada, 2003)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Baker" authorityYear="1890" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba cernua" order="Zingiberales" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cernua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba cernua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Holttum, 1950; Takano &amp; Okada, 2003)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. A. Weber" authorityYear="1991" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba corneri" order="Zingiberales" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="corneri">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba corneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Weber, 1991)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ibrahim &amp; K. Larsen" authorityYear="1995" class="Liliopsida" family="Zingiberaceae" genus="Globba" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Globba nawawii" order="Zingiberales" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="nawawii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Ibrahim &amp; Larsen, 1995)
</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Leaf number &amp; position</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">9-13; spaced along leafy stem</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">9-11; spaced along leafy stem</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">4-7; spaced along leafy stem</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">2; terminal</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">3-5; crowded in upper stem</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Petiole (cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">almost sessile</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">sessile</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">to c. 4 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">6-7</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">sessile</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Lamina size (cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
(14)17-22 
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(3.8) 4.3-6.7
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
13-19 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
3-6
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
15-19 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
3.5-5
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
30 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
10
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
c. 14.5 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.5
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Inflorescence length (cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">13.2-17</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">8-20</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">c. 8</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">13-21</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Peduncle length (cm) &amp; colour</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">9.5-11; light green</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">20-35; pale green</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">c. 12.5; green</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">0-3; pale green</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">6-10; whitish to light purplish red</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Rachis (cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">2.7-7</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">up to 15</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">5-10</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">3-5</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">7-11</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Size (cm) and shape of sterile bracts</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
4.5-6.5 
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0.7-1.2; elliptic-oblong
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">5-6 cm long; lanceolate-ensiform</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
0.7 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.25; ovate to elliptic
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
2(-2.5) 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1(-1.5); ovate or broadly lanceolate
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
1.2-1.4 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.5-0.7; ovate-acuminate
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Colour &amp; structure of sterile bracts</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; spreading to strongly reflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">green; imbricate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">green; not imbricate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; strongly reflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; reflexed</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Size (mm) and shape of fertile bracts</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
11-12 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
c. 4; elliptic
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
30 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
10; obovate
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">8 mm long; ovate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
20(-25) 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
10(-15); ovate or broadly lanceolate
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">
12-14 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
5-7; ovate-acuminate
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Colour &amp; structure of fertile bracts</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; spreading to reflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; spreading to reflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">yellow green; deflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; strongly reflexed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">white; spreading to strongly reflexed</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Colour of flowers</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">orange</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">orange</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">pale yellow</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">orange</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">orange</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="3" pageNumber="120">
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">Length of staminodes vs. corolla lobes</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">same</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">slightly longer</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">twice</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">twice</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="120" rowspan="1">twice</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="121">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">
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</emphasis>
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c 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">ernua</emphasis>
Baker is another species closely related to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Both grow in small clusters with 2-4 leafy shoots and their long inflorescences hang downwards in a very broad curve. Nevertheless, the distinctly white, large sterile bracts and the orange flowers of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
immediately separate it from the small green bracts and pale yellow flowers of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba cernua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Both sterile and fertile bracts of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
remain attached to the inflorescence but in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba cernua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the bracts are shed at the early stage of flowering. Other differences were also observed upon closer examination, such as the number of leaves and size of the staminodes (Table 
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).
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="121">
Among the 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba</emphasis>
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species in Peninsular Malaysia, there are two species with conspicuous white bracts: 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba corneri</emphasis>
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A.Weber and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
H.Ibrahim &amp; K.Larsen, which look similar to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
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but there are several features which distinguish them (Table 
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). 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba corneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the following characteristics: leafy stems with two leaves crowded at terminal, short peduncle that bend abruptly downwards, large white fertile bracts and the lateral staminodes are twice the length of the corolla lobes. For 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba nawawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, it has fewer leaves, longer rachis, smaller sterile and fertile bracts and lateral staminodes twice the length of the corolla lobes compared with those 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="121">
There are several Thai globbas with large showy floral bracts such as 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba candida</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba laeta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba siamensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba winittii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but they are not allied to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. These plants thrive in the seasonal forest and their leafy parts die back during the dry season leaving the rhizome dormant underground. It is not possible to find these species in the evergreen forest of Peninsular Malaysia where 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Globba magnibracteata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
grows.
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