Musa sumatrana 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 : 93

194. Musa sumatrana Becc.

in André, L’Illustration horticole 27: 37 (1880). — Type: [ Indonesia], Sumatra, ad Ayer mancior, Provicia di Padang in Sumatra occid. (all’alt. di circa 360 metri sul. liv. del mare), VIII.1878, O. Beccari 489 (lecto-, K 000292216!, 000292218!, here designated) .

Musa acuminata Colla var. sumatrana (Becc.) Nasution, Memoirs of the Tokyo University of Agriculture 32: 80 (1991).

HOMONYM. — Musa sumatrana Ridl. , Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1926: 90 (1926).

REMARKS

There are two type sheets at K collected in the type locality, viz. Sumatra ( Beccari1880). In the diagnosis the year of collection is given as 1877. However, such a specimen could not be located. The lectotype sheets are cross labelled with a marking “Be 11/79”, one consisting of fruits (000292216) and the other one of a leaf (000292218). In the first mentioned the label is lacking, but it bears the cross marking “Be 11/79, Musa sumatrana Becc. ” .

The illustration ( Beccari 1880) shows a non-flowering plant.He refers to “ M. sumatrana Becc., Catal. Hort.Florentini Corsi , no. 2,p. 4”.In that publication there is the name only. In his Nelle Foreste di Borneo, Beccari (1902) refers to “ M. sumatrana Becc. ”. The varietal rank ( Nasution 1991) is appropriate.