Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes
Author
Häkkinen, Markku
Author
Väre, Henry
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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.