India, Häkkinen & Väre, 2008

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 83

132. Musa mannii Baker

in Hooker , Flora of the British India : 263 (1892). — Type : Hooker, Botanical Magazine: t. 7311 (1893) (syntype) .

REMARKS

Herbarium and types of Baker are at K and WELT ( Stafleu & Cowan 1976), but original material has not been found. The plant was described by Baker 1893 “from a specimen that flowered in the palm-house at Kew, March 1893 ”. It is indigenous in Assam, India . This taxon is poorly known. It is perhaps extinct in nature, but has survived in certain botanical gardens ( Häkkinen & Sharrock 2002; Häkkinen 2006a, 2007).