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Ensete ruandense
Ensete ruandense (E. A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 8: 111 (1923)) E.
E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (1947).
Accepted name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (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 ruandensis E. A.
J. De Wildeman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 8: 111 (1923). |
Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link below). The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
Distribution |
Rwanda |
Description |
See Ensete ventricosum for a description of this
polymorphic species. |
References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967: 42, Cheesman 1947a : 104. |
Comments |
Cheesman
created Ensete ruandense as a new combination (number 24 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 ruandense 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
ruandense to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link above). Type: cultivated at Kisantu (D. R. Congo) by J. Gillet from
seed collected in Rwanda by Durand (May 1923) (B&S 1953); in Herbarium at Brussels. |
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