Globba

Globba is a genus of plants in the ginger family: with delicate flowers, sometimes called "dancing ladies" or "dancing girls ginger". Species are native to the Indian subcontinent, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Queensland.

==Species== thumb|right|Globba racemosa thumb|right|Globba winitii Plants of the World Online includes: Globba acehensis - Sumatra Globba adhaerens - Indochina Globba albiflora - western Indochina, peninsular Malaysia Globba albobracteata - Sumatra Globba amnicola - Thailand Globba amplectens - Thailand Globba andersonii - eastern Himalayas Globba angcorensis - Cambodia, Vietnam Globba annamensis - Laos, Vietnam Globba aranyaniae - Thailand to Laos Globba argyrocycnos - Thailand Globba arracanensis - northern Myanmar Globba atrosanguinea - Sumatra, Borneo Globba aurantiaca - Sumatra Globba aurea - Palawan, Busuanga Globba bicolor - Cambodia, Vietnam Globba bokorensis - Cambodia Globba brachyanthera - Sumatra, Borneo Globba bracteolata - Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar Globba brevifolia - Luzon Globba cambodgensis - Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand Globba campsophylla - Philippines Globba candida - Cambodia Globba cataractarum - Thailand Globba cernua - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra Globba chekiangensis - Zhejiang Globba chrysantha - Thailand Globba chrysochila - Thailand Globba clarkei - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bangladesh, Thailand Globba colpicola - Thailand Globba conferta - Thailand Globba corneri - Malaysia Globba curtisii - Malaysia Globba dasycarpa - Thailand Globba decora - Thailand Globba depingiana - Yunnan Globba emeiensis - Sichuan Globba expansa - Myanmar, Thailand (syn. G. yeatsiana ) Globba fecunda - Sumatra Globba flagellaris - Thailand Globba flavibracteata - Sumatra Globba fragilis - Thailand, Langkawi Globba francisci - Sabah, Sarawak Globba garrettii - Thailand Globba geoffrayi - Cambodia Globba glandulosa - Sarawak Globba globulifera - Thailand, Vietnam Globba gracilis - Mindanao Globba grandis - Thailand Globba hasseltii - Sumatra Globba hilaris - Indochina Globba holttumii - Malaysia Globba impar - Vietnam Globba insectifera - Myanmar, Thailand (syn. G. kerrii , G. nuda ) Globba integra - Thailand Globba × - Malaysia (G. cernua × G. patens) Globba janae - Laos Globba kanchigandhii - Assam (Nagaland) Globba keithii - Thailand Globba laeta - Myanmar, Thailand Globba lancangensis - Yunnan Globba larsenii - Thailand Globba latifolia - Philippines Globba leucantha - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra Globba lilacina - Philippines Globba lithophila - Thailand Globba longiligulata - Thailand Globba luteola - Thailand Globba macrocarpa - Indochina Globba macrochila - Nepal, eastern Himalayas Globba macroclada - Java Globba maculata - widespread through the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia (Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.) as well as Yunnan, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Mer ( = Murray Island in Queensland) Globba magnibracteata - Yunnan Globba marantina - widespread in Tropical Asia to Queensland - type species Globba menglianensis - Myanmar Globba mogokensis - Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar Globba mollis - Sumatra Globba multiflora - Borneo Globba multifolia - Sumatra Globba muluensis - Borneo Globba nawawii - Terengganu Globba newmanii - Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia Globba nisbetiana - Thailand Globba nitens - Thailand Globba nitida - Thailand Globba obscura - Thailand Globba orixensis - Bangladesh, eastern India, Myanmar Globba paniculata - Sumatra Globba parva - Indochina Globba parviflora - Philippines Globba patens - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra Globba pauciflora - Myanmar, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Globba pelecanthera - Thailand, Laos Globba pendula - Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indochina, western Indonesia, Malaysia, Andaman Islands Globba philippinensis - Philippines Globba platystachya - southern India Globba poomae - Thailand Globba praecox - Thailand Globba praetermissa - Yunnan Globba propinqua - Borneo Globba pumila - Sarawak Globba purpurascens - Thailand Globba pycnostachys - Thailand Globba pyramidata - Cambodia, Vietnam, Mindanao Globba pyrrhopoikila - Sumatra Globba racemosa - Himalayas, southern China, Myanmar, Thailand Globba radicalis - eastern Himalayas Globba rahmanii - Bangladesh Globba ranongensis - Thailand Globba reflexa - Thailand Globba rosea - Laos Globba ruiliensis - Yunnan Globba rupestris - Laos Globba salarkhanii - Bangladesh Globba schomburgkii - Yunnan, Assam, Indochina Globba securifer - Cambodia Globba sessiliflora - India, Myanmar, Thailand Globba sherwoodiana - Assam, Myanmar Globba siamensis - Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Globba sirirugsae - Thailand Globba spathulata - eastern Himalayas Globba subscaposa - Myanmar Globba substrigosa - Myanmar, Thailand Globba talangensis - Sumatra Globba tembatensis - Malaysia Globba thorelii - Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia Globba tricolor - Borneo Globba unifolia - Malaysia, Thailand Globba urophylla - Maluku Globba ustulata - Balabac, Vietnam Globba variabilis - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra Globba verecunda - Thailand Globba virginea - N. & W. Sumatra Globba wardii - Mizoram, Myanmar Globba wengeri - Assam, Myanmar Globba williamsiana - Thailand Globba winitii - Thailand, Myanmar Globba xantholeuca - Thailand