Musa microcarpa Becc.

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 84

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190398

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scientific name

Musa microcarpa Becc.
status

 

135. Musa microcarpa Becc. View in CoL

( Fig. 4 View FIG )

Nelle Foreste di Borneo 612 (1902). — Type: [ Malaysia], Borneo, Ragiato di Sarawak, 186[6], [O. Beccari] no. 3351 (lecto-, FI!, here designated) .

ISONYM. — Musa microcarpa Becc. , Webbia 5: 548. ( Martelli 1923) “sp. n.”.

Musa acuminata Colla subsp. microcarpa (Becc.) N.W.Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11: 467 (1957, “1956”); Musa acuminata var. microcarpa (Becc.) Nasution, Memoirs View in CoL of the Tokyo University of Agriculture 32: 86 (1991).

REMARKS

There is a second sheet at FI, collected at the type locality, “Abita Sarawak a Marop, P.B[eccari] no. 2722 ”. Beccari (1902: figs 77, 81) included also an illustration with his diagnosis, which fits the lectotype. The name is diagnosed also on page 623, where the type locality information is given .

BECCARI O. 1902. - Nota sui banani selvatici di Borneo, in Nelle foreste di Borneo. Tipografia di Salvadore Landi, Firenze: 611 - 624.

MARTELLI U. 1923. - Nota sui banani selvatici de Borneo. Webbia 5: 532 - 549.

Gallery Image

FIG. 4. — Lectotype of Musa microcarpa Becc. (O. Beccari 3351, FI).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Zingiberales

Family

Musaceae

Genus

Musa