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Ensete rubronervatum
Ensete rubronervatum (E. A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 8: 112 (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 rubronervata E.
A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 8: 112 (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 rubronervatum as a new combination (number 25 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 rubronervatum 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
rubronervatum to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum (please see link
above). Type:
J. Gillet, s.n. Kisantu (D. R. Congo) 1923 (evidently cultivated here from seed
from Rwanda collected by Durand); in Herbarium at Brussels. |
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