Musa africana Bull.

Väre, Henry & Häkkinen, Markku, 2011, Typification and check-list of Ensete Horan. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 33 (2), pp. 191-200 : 194

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5252/a2011n2a3

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C3B11-3133-EA52-F99D-AEBDFDECFC6B

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scientific name

Musa africana Bull.
status

 

3. Musa africana Bull. View in CoL , nom. illeg.

A Retail List of New, Beautiful and Rare Plants Offered by William Bull: 6 (1871).

REMARKS

The name is illegitimate ( Häkkinen & Väre 2008). It is synonymous with Ensete edule ( Baker 1894; Baker & Simmonds 1954), i.e. E. ventricosum .

BAKER J. G. 1894. - A synopsis of the genera and species of Museae. Annals of Botany (Oxford) 7: 189 - 229.

BAKER R. E. D. & SIMMONDS N. W. 1954. - The genus Ensete in Africa. Kew Bulletin 3: 405 - 416 (dated 1953, published 1954).

HAKKINEN M. & VARE H. 2008 - Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes. Adansonia 30 (1): 63 - 112.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Zingiberales

Family

Musaceae

Genus

Musa