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Musa chevalieri
Musa chevalieri F. Gagnepain, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55, 58, Mem. 8: 87 (1908)
and A. J. B. Chevalier, Novitates Florae Africanae in Mémoires de la Société Botanique
de France 8: 31 - 109 (1908).
| Accepted name |
Ensete gilletii (E. A. J. De Wildeman) E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
| Synonyms |
Musa
procera A. J. B. Chevalier |
| Authorities |
The
authorities for the accepted name are Cheesman 1947a, Baker & Simmonds 1953.
The authority for the synonym is Gerda Rossel. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Central
African Republic. |
| Description |
Plant
4 - 4.5 m. high, leafy throughout. Base of pseudostem lightly dilated. Leaves
erect, lanceolate-acute. Petioles purplish at the base, narrowed in the middle,
pruinose-glaucous outside. Inflorescence drooping, fruits very crowded, male flowers
persistent. Bracts ovate-lanceolate. Perianth three-lobed, free petal
two-lobed. Stamens 5 (rarely 6). Fruit club-shaped, 8 - 9 cm. long, green with
white dots and yellowish pulp. Seeds black, ca. 30/fruit, 7 - 8 mm. in diameter.
(Gagnepain
1908, Fawcett 1913). |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 407, Champion 1967 : 39, Cheesman
1947a : 103, Chevalier 1912 : 37, Chevalier 1913 : 303, Chevalier 1934 : 73, De Wildeman 1912 : 324, Fawcett
1913 : 276, Gagnepain 1908 : 87 - 88, Hepper 1968 :
69, Hutchinson & Dalziel 1936 :
328, Koechlin 1965 : 11. |
| Comments |
Musa chevalieri has also been associated with Ensete
schweinfurthii ; this seems to have been based on a confusion by
Hutchinson & Dalziel.
According to Gagnepain, M. chevalieri resembled M. schweinfurthii in its
"basi valde dilatata" (i.e. base of pseudostem only slightly dilated), and
Chevalier (1913: 303) gives M. chevalieri Gagnep. as a synonym of M.
schweinfurthii Warb.Types:
Chevalier no. 5446 [this is the type of M. procera Chev.], 6059, 8389, notes and
photographs (in Herb. Paris). |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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