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Musa fecunda
Musa fecunda O. Stapf, Journal of the Linnean Society (Bot.) 37: 526 (1906).
| 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 fecundum (O. Stapf)
E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
| Authorities |
The
accepted name is from Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (please see link
below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Uganda, 5,000 ft. altitude. |
| Description |
Trunk 2 ft. in diameter at base. Leaf midribs
red. Inflorescence drooping. Bracts lanceolate-oblong, subacuminate, about 1
ft. 4 in. long and 5 in. broad. Flowers very numerous. Perianth
linear-oblong, apex obtuse three-toothed, 2 in. long, with two awl-shaped strips on the
inside, nearly 1 in. long ; free petal three-lobed, about ¾ in. long, the median lobe
awl-shaped, lateral lobes rounded. Stamens 5. Fruits very numerous (418
counted in one bunch). Seeds, a little over ½ in. in diameter, flattened-globular.
(Stapf 1906, Fawcett 1913). |
| References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967 : 40, Cheesman 1947a : 103, Fawcett
1921 : 274, Lock 1993 : 3, Mobot
Tropicos, Stapf 1906: 528. |
| 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. Type (holotype): M. T. Dawe no. 521, Isunga, Toro, Uganda; in
Herbarium, RBG Kew. |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel
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