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Ensete arnoldianum
Ensete arnoldianum (E. A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Soc. Etud. Colon. Brux. 8: 339
(1901)) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947).
| Accepted
name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch, Apont. 545
and 587 (1867)) E. E. Cheesman,
Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947) and R. E. D. Baker & N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 8 (3): 405 - 416 (1953) with correction in Kew
Bulletin 8 (4): 574 (1953). |
| Synonyms |
Musa arnoldiana E. A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Soc. Etud.
Colon. Brux. 8: 339 (1901). |
| Authorities |
The
source for the accepted name and synonym is Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (please
see link below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Distribution |
Congo. |
| Description |
See Ensete
ventricosum for a general description of this polymorphic species. See
Musa arnoldiana for a description of the type. |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406 & 574, Champion 1967 : 38, Cheesman
1947a : 103. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete
arnoldianum as a new combination (number 13 out of 25) in a brief note in his 1947
paper reviving the genus Ensete. Cheesman revived one and created 24 new Ensete
species in that paper but acknowledged that field study might reveal synonymy. Baker
and Simmonds' 1953 review of the genus Ensete in Africa radically reduced the
number of species either reducing or rejecting most of Cheesman's African Ensete.
Baker and Simmonds' original paper reduced Ensete arnoldianum to a synonym
of Ensete edule. However, when it was noticed that, via Musa ventricosa,
Ensete ventricosum took priority over Ensete edule by three years a
substantial correction appeared in the following issue of Kew Bulletin that reduced Ensete
arnoldianum to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link
above). Under
Ensete arnoldianum Cheesman 1947a comments:
"Musa hybrida
Gillet in L'Agronomie tropicale (1909), 29, appears to have been a hybrid between E.
arnoldianum [= E. ventricosum] and E. gilletii. I have not seen the original
description but take the information from De Wildeman, [presumably Bull. Soc. Etud. Colon. Brux. 8 (1901), 339.] who did not know how the hybrid was obtained. The plant is
of some interest as it is the only recorded hybrid in the genus Ensete, but in
view of the scanty information about it I have not thought a new combination necessary for
it under that genus".
Type:
J. Gillet no. 1850, région de Dembo, Congo 1901; in Herb. Brux. |
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