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Musa calosperma
Musa calosperma F. J. H. von Mueller, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New
South Wales 10: 355 (1885) and Gardeners' Chronicle series 3, 20: 369 & 467 fig. 85
(1896).
Accepted name |
Ensete glaucum (W.
Roxburgh) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947) and N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin
14 (2): 206 (1960). |
Synonyms |
Ensete calospermum (F.
J. H. von Mueller) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 102 (1947). |
Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Simmonds 1960.
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
Distribution |
New Guinea (Papua New Guinea incl. New Britain and New
Ireland). |
Description |
See Ensete calospermum. |
References |
Champion 1967 : 39, Cheesman 1947a : 102, Simmonds
1960 : 205-6, 212. |
Comments |
This New Guinea Musa was transferrred to Ensete
by Cheesman in his 1947 paper reviving the genus Ensete. Simmonds
subsequently reduced it to a synonym of Ensete glaucum on the basis of
similarities with collections of that species from south-east Asia.
This taxon has been mis-spelled on occasion. As noted by Cheesman 1947, "The Gardeners' Chronicle note cited [above] is supplemented (ibid. p. 467) by a drawing (fig. 85) which by a
printer's error is titled "Inflorescence of Musa alosperma". The
error is worth notice because the combination "Musa alosperma" has
found its way into Index Londinensis."
And in Champion 1967 the specific epithet is mis-spelled "callosperma"From Simmonds 1960: The type is a
single seed in the National Herbarium, Melbourne (MEL) labelled 'Musa calosperma
(Northern New Guinea) Moresby Island', which agrees perfectly with the seeds described [see
description at Ensete calospermum]. Letters from
Miklouho-Maclay to von Mueller (also in MEL) make it clear that Miklouho-Maclay saw fruits
at Moresby Island in 1879 but lost the specimens; the seed that ultimately became the type
came from a necklace collected on the Maclay coast, where he [von Mueller] did not see the plants. There is also at Melbourne a collection by
W. V. Fitzgerald (Oct. 1895) from the Mambare River.
Photographs by Simmonds and Womersley & Simmonds and
Fitzgerald are at RBG Kew and the Department of Agriculture, Queensland. |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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