Musa splendida A.Chev.

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

193. Musa splendida A.Chev.

Revue de Botanique appliquée et d’Agriculture tropicale

14: 517 (1934).

REMARKS

In his original description, Chevalier did not mention herbarium material and he described the species on living specimens from “ Vietnam, Haut-Tonkin, Muong-Xen, à 700 m, sur la route de Laokay à Chapa, en fleur et fruits, 4.XII.1913 ”. Herbarium and types of Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier are at P and PC ( Stafleu & Cowan 1976), but the corresponding specimens could not be found. Musa splendida is very poorly known (with no known locality), and is perhaps not a good species ( Simmonds 1960a: 204; Valmayor et al. 2004).