Musa truncata Ridl.

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 95

206. Musa truncata Ridl.

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Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 4: 80 (1909) . — Type: Malaya, Telom, Pahang, 1905, H [enry] R [idley] 13694 (lecto-, SING [sheets 1! and 2], designated by Nasution [1991: 45, “holo-”]; isolecto-, BM 000617251!).

Musa acuminata Colla subsp. truncata (Ridl.) Kiew , in Wong et al., Annals of Botany 88: 1025 (2001).

REMARKS

There are two type sheets at SING, both bearing the same collection number of Ridley (13694), both representing lectotype ( McNeill 2006: Art. 8.3). When Nasution (1991) designated the “ holotype ”, he erroneously gave the collection number as “3694”. According to de Wildeman (1912: 338), Simmonds (1957: 468) and Hotta (1989) M. truncata Ridl. is a synonym of M. acuminata subsp. malaccensis . This view has been shown to be wrong ( Wong et al. 2002), and the rank of subspecies is currently appropriate.

Figures

FIG. 5. — Lectotype of Musa truncata Ridl. (HR 13694, SING).