taxonID	type	description	language	source
6C519FAD70E45EBD99816762D6665E46.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Globba magnibracteata is similar to Globba albobracteata N. E. Br. where both are placed in the subgenus Globba section Sempervirens. 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 Globba albobracteata. The elliptic fertile bracts of Globba magnibracteata are smaller (1.1 - 1.2 cm long) compared to the obovate bracts of Globba albobracteata which are about 3 cm long. The cincinnus stalk of Globba magnibracteata is also shorter (less than 1 cm) than that of Globba albobracteata (2 - 4 cm). Globba magnibracteata has bulbils with many roots and one bamboo-like shoot distinct from the one-root-one-shoot bulbils in Globba albobracteata.	en	Sam, Yen Yen, Ibrahim, Halijah (2016): A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 73: 117-124, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737
6C519FAD70E45EBD99816762D6665E46.taxon	materials_examined	Type. MALAYSIA. Peninsular Malaysia, Terengganu, Jengai Forest Reserve, Compartment 5, 4 ° 39.59 ' N, 103 ° 05.05 ' E, 21 April 2009, Sam & Aidil FRI 68959 (holotype: KEP; isotypes: E, KLU, SAN, SING)	en	Sam, Yen Yen, Ibrahim, Halijah (2016): A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 73: 117-124, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737
6C519FAD70E45EBD99816762D6665E46.taxon	description	Description. 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 x (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 pointing 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 x 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 x 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 x 2.5 mm, broadly elliptic, apex rounded, margin curved in when fresh, abaxial hairy; lateral staminodes narrowly ovate, c. 5 x 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 x 1 mm, spreading wide. Ovary c. 2 mm long, orange, pubescent, unilocular; stigma c. 1 x 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.	en	Sam, Yen Yen, Ibrahim, Halijah (2016): A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 73: 117-124, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737
6C519FAD70E45EBD99816762D6665E46.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet is derived from Latin and refers to the large (magnus) floral bract (bractea).	en	Sam, Yen Yen, Ibrahim, Halijah (2016): A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 73: 117-124, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737
6C519FAD70E45EBD99816762D6665E46.taxon	distribution	Distribution and ecology. Globba magnibracteata 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.	en	Sam, Yen Yen, Ibrahim, Halijah (2016): A new Globba with large white floral bracts from Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 73: 117-124, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.73.9737
