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by David Constantine
The type species of Musella, M. lasiocarpa was discovered by the Abbé Delavay in 1885 "dans les régions éleveés du Yun-nan, sur les rochers de Loko-chan et sur ceux Che-tong, près de Tapin-tze, à une altitude de 1,200 mètres environ". It was described first by Franchet in 1889 who named the plant Musa lasiocarpa. Cheesman transferred the plant to the genus Ensete in 1947 but it was returned to Musa by Simmonds in 1960. In 1978 C. Y. Wu created the new genus Musella to accommodate this distinct plant. In 2002 Valmayor and Danh named a new species, Musella splendida from Vietnam. Unfortunately the reasons given for the separation of the species are highly dubious and it is more than likely that M. splendida is no more than a Vietnamese specimen of M. lasiocarpa. Better evidence from Vietnam may alter this in future.
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