A New Species of Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) discovered from Kayah State
A new species, Zingiber procumbens Nob.Tanaka & M.M.Aung (Zingiberaceae), discovered from Kayah State, eastern Myanmar. This
species is similar to Z. bradleyanum Craib in vegetative characters, but well distinguished from it by a combination of long bilobed ligules, lamina with silvery line, procumbent peduncle, tubular bracts with dark reddish stripes, and flowers with purple orbicular labellum.
