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Musa buchanani
Musa buchanani J. G. Baker, Annals of Botany 7: 207 (1893).
| 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 buchanani (J. G.
Baker) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 102 (1947). |
| Authorities |
The source for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds 1953
as corrected (please see link below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
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| Distribution |
Tropical East Africa. M. buchanani was found
by J. Buchanan in the Shiré Highlands of Nyasaland (now Malawi) in July 1885. |
| Description |
Nearly allied to M. Ensete,
but the bracts linear-oblong, in Buchanan's specimens 1 - 1˝ ft. long, 2˝ - 4 in. broad.
Flowers 10 in a row. Ovary cylindrical, above an inch long. Unexpanded
calyx cylindrical as long as the ovary. Seeds as large as those of M. Ensete,
glossy black, not tubercled.
(Baker 1893). |
| References |
Baker 1893 : 207, Baker 1894 a : 328, Baker 1898
: 329, Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 405, Champion 1967 : 39, Cheesman
1947a : 102, Fawcett 1913 : 275, Lock 1993 : 3, Mobot Tropicos, Schumann 1912. |
| 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. The type material (holotype) is in the Herbarium at RBG Kew
(Shiré highlands, Buchanan no. 47 of 1885 collection). According to Baker 1893
"Sir John Kirk saw the seeds from the Shiré valley, at a
height of 2,000 ft. above sea-level". |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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