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 : 90

177. Musa sapientum L. subsp. seminifera (Lour.) Baker f. pruinosa Baker

Annals of Botany (Oxford) 7: 214 (1893) . — Type: India , Sikkim, 1875, G. King (lecto-, K!, here designated).

Musa pruinosa (Baker) Burkill, Records of the Botanical Survey of India 2: 384 (1925); Musa sapientum var. pruinosa (Baker) A.M.Cowan & Cowan, Trees of North Bengal: 135 (1929).

REMARKS

There is a type sheet at K, taken from the type locality, viz. Sikkim ( Baker 1893). Baker (1893) refers in his diagnosis to the manuscript by King. However, it was Baker alone who wrote the diagnosis. This taxon is closely related to M. balbisiana , probably as an infraspecific one. While making their combination, Cowan & Cowan (1929) did not indicate to which subspecies the name pruinosa belongs.