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Ensete buchanani
Ensete buchanani (J. G. Baker, Annals of Botany 7: 207 (1893)) E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 2 (2): 102 (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 buchanani J. G.
BakerAnnals of Botany 7: 207 (1893). |
| Authorities |
The source for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds 1953
as corrected (see link below). The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Distribution |
Tropical East Africa. See Musa buchanani. |
| Description |
See Ensete ventricosum for a description of this
polymorphic species.
See Musa buchanani for a description of the type of Ensete buchanani. |
| References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953 : 405, Cheesman 1947a : 102, Lock 1993 : 5, Mobot Tropicos. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete buchanani as a new combination (number 9 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 buchanani 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
buchanani to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link above).
The type material (holotype) is in the Herbarium at RBG Kew (Buchanan no. 470). |
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