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Ensete livingstonianum
Ensete livingstonianum (J. Kirk,
Journal of the Linnean Society 9: 128 (1867))
E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947).
| Accepted name |
none
- type nomen confusum |
| Synonyms |
Musa livingstoniana
J. Kirk, Journal of the Linnean Society 9: 128 (1867). |
| Authorities |
The
authority for rejecting the name is Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (see link
below). |
| Distribution |
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| Description |
See
Musa livingstoniana for a description of the type. |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953: 408, Champion 1967: 41, Cheesman
1947a: 101, Lebrun & Stork 1995, Lock 1993. |
| Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete livingstonianum as a new combination (number 5 out of 25) in a
brief note in his 1947 paper reviving the genus Ensete. Cheesman revived
one and created 24 Ensete species in that paper but acknowledged that field study
might reveal synonymy. However, Baker & Simmonds consider instead that
the name Musa livingstonianum must be rejected based on the type being regarded
as nomen confusum. The type specimen (a packet of seeds collected from the
ground by J. Mahon at Zomba, Nyasaland [now Malawi] and now in the Herbarium RBG Kew)
matches Ensete gilletii but the accompanying description could only refer to Ensete
edule [= E. ventricosum]. The location in Malawi suggests to one of us
(GR) that the plant was probably a small-seeded form of E. ventricosum.
Champion 1967, citing Simmonds 1953 (sic), gives Ensete gilletii as the
accepted name but the citation and interpretation are not quite correct.
Ensete livingstonianum is not mentioned by Lock 1993 its collection locality
presumably falling outside the range of that flora.See
Musa livingstoniana for further discussion. |
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