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Ensete holstii
Ensete holstii (K. M. Schumann, in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbuecher. 34: 121-124
(1904)) 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 holstii K. M.
Schumann, in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbuecher. 34: 121-124 (1904). |
Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
Distribution |
East Africa, West Usambara mountains (North-East Tanzania). |
Description |
See Ensete ventricosum for a description of this
polymorphic species.
See Musa holstii for a description of the type of Ensete holstii. |
References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953: 413-414, Burkill 1935, Champion 1967: 40, Cheesman
1947a: 103, De Wildeman 1912, Fawcett 1913: 273-274, Lock 1993,
Mobot Tropicos, Rung 1911, Uphof 1968. |
Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete holstii as a new combination (number 16 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 holstii 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
holstii to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link above). Baker & Simmonds 1953 discuss E. holstii in some
detail (p. 413) but note that "while it differs from other
collections [of E. ventricosum] in colour of bracts,
in size and shape of fruit (slightly) and in size of seed [ ] there is no truly distinctive character or assemblage of characters to
reccomend the retention of the [name] Ensete holstii"
Type (holo?+ B) in A. Engler, Reise nach Sued- und Ostafrika, no. 2254,
West Usambara, Tanganyika, 25-9-1902.
Isotype in Herb. Kew and Herb. Mus. Brit. |
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