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Musa bagshawei
Musa bagshawei A. B. Rendle & S. Greves, Journal of Botany, British and
Foreign. 48: 169 [t. 506] (1910).
| Accepted
name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman,
Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (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 |
Ensete bagshawei (A. B. Rendle & S. Greves) E. E.
Cheesman,
Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
| Authorities |
The
source for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (please see link
below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Tropical
East Africa, the type material was collected by Bagshawe in Uganda. |
| Description |
Plant 16 - 18 ft. high; trunk 6½ ft. in
circumference 6 in. above the ground. Leaves with a narrow red edging and red
mid-rib, 11½ ft. long. Inflorescence drooping 2½ ft. long. Bracts dull red,
acuminate, 11 in. long, 6 in. broad. Flowers 17 - 19, in two rows, under each bract.
Perianth three-lobed, about 1½ in. long; free petal three-toothed, median tooth
awn-like, lateral rounded, rather more than ½ in. long. Fruit light orange with a
little darker pulp, 4½ - 5 in. long. Seeds thirty, black, shining. Very near
to M. Laurentii.
(Fawcett 1913). |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967 : 39, Cheesman
1947a : 103, Fawcett 1913 : 278, Lock 1993 : 3, Mobot Tropicos, Rendle & Greves 1910. |
| Comments |
This was one of a number of African Musa
transferrred to Ensete by Cheesman in his 1947 paper reviving the genus Ensete.
It was later reduced to a synonym of Ensete ventricosum by Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link above). It is now recognised that there are no
wild Musa native to Africa, only Ensete. Cheesman mis-spelled S. Greves' name as Greaves and this error has
since been widely copied e.g. by Baker & Simmonds, at Mobot Tropicos and most recently
by Lock. Fawcett got it right though.
The
type material (holotype) is in the Herbarium of the British Museum (Bagshawe no. 1582,
25.4.1907, Foweira etc., Unyoro, Uganda, at 3,500 ft.). |
Compiled
partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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