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Ensete religiosum
Ensete religiosum (J. Dybowski, Rev. Hort. 72: 262 (1900) and E. A. J. De Wildeman,
Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille ser. 2, 10: 352 (1912)) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103
(1947).
| Accepted name |
none - type rejected as nomen nudum |
| Synonyms |
1.
Musa religiosa J. Dybowski (Dybowsky), Rev. Hort. 72:
262 (1900) and E. A. J. De Wildeman, Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille ser. 2, 10: 352 (1912).
2. Musa gilletii E. A. J. De Wildeman, Rev. Cult.
Colon. 8: 102 (1901).
3. Musa chevalieri F. Gagnepain, Bull. Soc. Bot.
France 55, mém. 8: 87 (1908), and in A. Chevalier, Novitates florae africanae.
Mémoires de la Société Botanique de France 8: pp. 87 - 88 (1908).
4. Musa dybowskii E. A. J. De Wildeman, err. cal.
Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille ser. 2, 7: 245 (1909).
5. Musa schweinfurthii sensu
Hutchinson & Dalziel in F.W.T.A. ed. 1, 2: 328 (1936) and not of K. M. Schumann &
O. Warburg ex K. M. Schumann in A. Engler's Pflanzenreich 4, 45: 14 (1900), ex Hepper in
F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3: 69 (1968).
6. Ensete gilletii (E. A. J. De Wildeman) E. E.
Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
| Authorities |
The authority for the name being rejected as nomen nudum
is Baker & Simmonds 1953 notwithstanding Cheesman 1947a.
Synonyms are from:1, 3 & 4 are from Cheesman 1947a.
2, 5 & 6 are from Hepper 1968 where 2 & 5 are cited as synonyms of Ensete
gilletii. |
| Distribution |
Congo (Brazzaville). |
| Description |
See Musa religiosa for a description of the type. |
| References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953: 409, Cheesman 1947a: 103, Dybowski 1900 a, Dybowski
1900 b, Hepper 1968, Lock
1993. |
| Comments |
Cheesman created Ensete religiosum as a new
combination (number 12 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. Baker & Simmonds consider
instead that the name must be rejected because "there is no
type and the species, based on plants grown in Paris from seed collected in the French
Congo, was never properly described. Letters and specimens of seed in Herb. Brux.
comunicated by Dybowski to De Wildeman, however, make it clear that this is E.
gilletii, over which E. religiosum would have had priority as a
name if the type had been properly described". But it is not quite as
simple as that because, in similar circumstances, the combination Ensete elephantorum typified in 1900 would also have
had a claim to priority. The author's name is J. Dybowski or Dybowsky properly
abbreviated to "J. Dyb.". Some literature incorrectly gives the
abbreviation as "Dyb." which actually refers to a different person, W. B.
Dybowski. |
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