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Ensete bagshawei
Ensete bagshawei (A. B. Rendle and S. Greves,
Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 48: 169 [t. 506] (1910))
E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947).
| Accepted
name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman,
Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947) and R. E. D. Baker & N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 8
(3): 405 (1953) with correction in Kew Bulletin 8 (4): 574 (1953). |
| Synonyms |
Musa bagshawei A. B. Rendle and S. Greves,
Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 48: 169 [t. 506] (1910). |
| Authorities |
The
source for the accepted name and synonym is Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (see
link below). |
| Distribution |
Tropical
East Africa, the type material was collected by Bagshawe in Uganda. |
| Description |
See
Ensete ventricosum for a description of this polymorphic species. See
Musa bagshawei for a description of the type of Ensete bagshawei. |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967 : 39, Cheesman
1947a : 103, Fawcett 1913 : 278, Lock 1993 : 3, Mobot Tropicos. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete
bagshawei as a new combination (number 21 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 bagshawei 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
bagshawei to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link
above). Cheesman mis-spelled S. Greves' name as Greaves and this error has
since been widely copied e.g. by Baker & Simmonds, at Mobot Tropicos and most recently
by Lock. Fawcett got it right though.
The
type material (holotype) is in the Herbarium of the British Museum (Bagshawe no. 1582,
25.4.1907, Foweira etc., Unyoro, Uganda, at 3,500 ft.). |
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