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Ensete davyae
Ensete davyae (O. Stapf, Kew Bulletin 3: 102 (1913)) E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (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 davyae O.
Stapf, Kew Bulletin 3: 102 (1913). |
| Authorities |
The authorities for the accepted name are Baker &
Simmonds 1953 as corrected (please see link below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Distribution |
South Africa (Transvaal) and Mozambique. |
| Description |
See Ensete ventricosum for a description of this
polymorphic species. See Musa davyae for a description of the type of Ensete
davyae. |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967 : 40, Cheesman
1947a : 102, Guppy 1906 : 414 & 436, Simmonds 1960 : 212. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete davyae as a new combination (number 23 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 davyae 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
davyae to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link above).
Types: J. Burtt Davy, Zoutpansburg, Transvaal (drawings) and W. H. Johnson, Amatongas
forest, Mozambique, 27.11.1907; in Herb. Kew. |
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