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Ensete fecundum
Ensete fecundum (O. Stapf, Journal of the Linnean Society (Bot.) 37: 526 (1906)) 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 fecunda O. Stapf,
Journal of the Linnean Society (Bot.) 37: 526 (1906). |
| Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link below), the synonymy is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Distribution |
Uganda (Isunga, Tooro). |
| Description |
See Ensete ventricosum for a description of this
polymorphic species.
See Musa fecunda for a description of the type of E. fecundum. |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Cheesman 1947a, Fawcett
1913 : 274, Lock 1993 : 5, Mobot
Tropicos, Stapf 1906 : 526. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete fecundum as a new combination (number 19 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 fecundum 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
fecundum to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link above).
Holotype: M. T. Dawe no. 521 (in Herb. Kew) |
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