Globba praetermissa (Zingiberaceae), a new species of G. sect. Globba from Yunnan, China Author Jin, Jia Yi 0000-0002-7631-532X Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation & Sustainable Utilisation, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510650, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China & College of Life Sciences, Gannan Normal University, 341000, Ganzhou, People’s Republic of China & jinjiayi @ scbg. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7631 - 532 X jinjiayi@scbg.ac.cn Author Wang, Yi Hui 0000-0001-7186-7814 School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture Beijing, 100083, Beijing, People’s Republic of China & wangyihui @ bjfu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7186 - 7814 wangyihui@bjfu.edu.cn Author Xia, Nian He 0000-0001-9852-7393 Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation & Sustainable Utilisation, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510650, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China & nhxia @ scbg. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9852 - 7393 nhxia@scbg.ac.cn Author Bai, Lin 0000-0001-8464-8688 Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation & Sustainable Utilisation, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510650, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China & bailin @ scbg. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8464 - 8688 bailin@scbg.ac.cn text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-05-23 598 2 173 181 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.598.2.7 journal article 304349 10.11646/phytotaxa.598.2.7 d5b386b7-ad56-4d69-8949-e45e230f92ed 1179-3163 7961147

TABLE 1. Morphological comparison of Globba praetermissa, G. purpurascens and G. marantina.

	G. praetermissa	G. purpurascens	G. marantina
Stem length	60–90 cm	30–40 cm	30–60 cm
Color of leaf sheaths	green, lower ones somewhat purple	purple	green, lower ones somewhat purple
Leaf petiole	nearly absent at lower leaves, slightly elongated to 5 mm on upper leaves	absent	ca 6–10 mm long.
Indumentum of abaxial surface of laminae	pubescent	pubescent	puberulent
Inflorescence	lax, pendent, 5–12 cm long, peduncle 1–1.5 cm long beyond leaf sheaths	lax, pendent, 4–5 cm long, peduncle 3–4 mm long beyond leaf sheaths	dense, erect, 6 cm long, peduncle is surrounded by bracts and leaf sheaths
Bracts	reflexed, ovate, pale green, pubescent on both sides, densely ciliate	held at ca 90° to rachis, lanceolate, green with purple tinge, pubescent on both sides, densely ciliate	enclosing the inflorescence, ovate, green, puberulent on both sides, sparsely ciliate
Cincinni	straight, rachilla up to 4 cm long, peduncle of cincinni 8–12 mm	straight, rachilla 1.5–2 cm long, peduncle of cincinni 6–7 mm	arched, rachilla ca 2 cm long, peduncle of cincinni 4 mm
Bracteoles	conduplicate alone their keels, forming an equitant structure	conduplicate alone their keels, forming an equitant structure	not conduplicate, with the base clasping the above remaining part of cincinni and upper part leaning towards flowers
Size of lowermost bract	ca 35 × 15 mm	12–20 × 3–5 mm	25–30 × 10–15 mm
Ovary	pubescent, smooth	pubescent, verrucose	pubescent, later verrucose
Lateral staminodes length	nearly the same as lateral corolla lobe	nearly the same as lateral corolla lobe	ca 1/2 longer than lateral corolla lobe
Calyx	ca 5 mm long	ca 3 mm long	ca 5 mm long
Pedicel	fully enclosed by bracteole	not fully enclosed by bracteole	fully enclosed by bracteole
Appendages	six, including a smaller appendage between the two larger appendages on each side, distal pairs being similar to proximal in size	four, distal pairs being broader than proximal at base	four, distal pairs being broader than proximal at base
Chromosome numbers	2n=48 (Li & Chen 2008)	2n=32 (Larsen 1972)	2n=80 (Lim 1972b)