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Musa davyae
Musa davyae O. Stapf, Kew Bulletin 3: 102 (1913).
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 davyae (O. Stapf)
E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (1947). |
Authorities |
The authority 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 |
South Africa (Zoutpansberg, Transvaal), Mozambique (Amatongas
Forest). |
Description |
Pseudostem 30 - 40 ft. high. Leaves 12 - 17 ft. long,
midribs rose-pink. Inflorescence massive, pendulous. Bracts maroon, oblong,
about 1 ft. long and 5 in. broad. Flowers about 15 to each bract. Perianth
about 1 in. long, linear, the two petals not united in the middle; free petal less than
half as long, three-lobed. Stamens 5, 1 filiform staminoid. Fruit 3 - 5 in.
long, yellow; pulp scanty. Seeds few, greyish-brown, 1.6 - 1.8 cm. in diameter.
(Stapf
1913, Fawcett 1913). |
References |
Burtt Davy 1907 : 422, Burtt Davy 1911 : 93, Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967 : 40, Cheesman
1947a : 99 & 104, Fawcett 1913 : 275, GRIN, Lebrun & Stork
1995 : 34, Mobot Tropicos, Retief & Herman 1997 : 108, Stapf 1913 : 102 - 104. |
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.
Types: J. Burtt Davy, Zoutpansburg, Transvaal (drawings) and W. H. Johnson, Amatongas
forest, Mozambique, 27.11.1907; in Herbarium at RBG Kew. |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel
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