Musa paradisiaca Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1043. 1753
Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M)
Jarvis, Charlie
L.
Linnaeus
1753
Liliopsida
Musaceae
Musa
Plantae
Zingiberales
Tracheophyta
species
paradisiaca
Musa paradisiacaLinnaeus, Species Plantarum2: 1043. 1753.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 7536.
Lectotype(Argent in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg.127: 68. 1993): [icon] "Musa clijfortiana"in Linnaeus, Musa Cliff: unnumbered plate. 1736 (see p. 69).
Generitypeof MusaLinnaeus(vide Adanson, Fam.2: 525, 580. 1763).
Note:See extensive discussion by Cheeseman (in Kew Bull.3: 146. 1948) who, however, did not explicitly refer to any of the plates as type. Ghazanfar (in Ali & Nasir, Fl. Pakistan144: 2. 1982) indicated 1207.1 (LINN) as type, but this was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name.