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Musa agharkarii
Musa agharkarii A. K. Chakravorti, Journal of the Indian botanical Society 27
(2): 93 (1948).
| Accepted name |
Ensete glaucum (W.
Roxburgh) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947). |
| Synonyms |
Ensete agharkarii (A.
K. Chakravorti) D. K. Hore, B. D. Sharma & G. Pandey, Journal of economic and
taxonomic Botany 16 (2): 447-455 (1992). |
| Authorities |
The authorities for the accepted name are Rao & Hajra
1976 notwithstanding Hore et al 1992 who are the authorities for the synonym. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bengal (Bangladesh). |
| Description |
Pseudostem green, 7 - 8 ft. (2.1 - 2.4 m) tall, much swollen
at the base (4 - 5.5 ft. [1.2 - 1.7 m] in diameter), gradually tapering towards the apex,
assuming the form of a club, hence the vernacular name "gada kela" (literally
"club banana"); 5 thick and broad ribs on the base of the stem, gradually
disappearing towards the apex where the trunk is smoother in contour. (Chakravorti 1948). |
| References |
Chakravorti 1948, Chakravorti
1951, Hore et al 1992, Index Kewensis, Rao
& Hajra 1976, Sastri 1962 : 450, Schumann 1912. |
| Comments |
Chakravorti 1948 compared the morphological characters of the
plant with descriptions of Musa glauca in Schumann 1900 and concluded that it was
a distinct species. (Schumann listed 2 Indian spp. in the Musa subgenus Physocaulis,
i.e. M. superba Roxb. and M. nepalensis Wall., and placed M. glauca
Roxb. in Eumusa). However, the taxon was later reduced to a synonym of Ensete
glaucum by Rao & Hajra 1976. In 1992 Hore et al, in apparent ignorance of
Rao & Hajra 1976 transferred Musa agharkarii to Ensete agharkarii on
the basis that it was a "non-stoloniferous, single stemmed monocarpic herb with
unusual robust girth which bears the chromosome number 2n = 18, [Chakravorti 1948] [which]
suggests its appropriate placement under [that] genus". |
Compiled
partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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