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Musa flaviflora
Musa
flaviflora N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956).
| Accepted name |
Musa
flaviflora N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956). |
| Synonyms |
Musa acuminata Colla, the Mariani form of Cheesman,
Kew Bull. 1948, 28 (descr. & fig.); Simmonds, Journ. Genetics 51, 32 (1952).
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Musa sapientum subsp. seminifera form thomsoni King MSS ex
Baker, Ann. Bot. 7, 214 (1893); E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bull. 1948, 327
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Musa thomsoni King MSS ex Cowan and Cowan, Trees of North Bengal, 135 (1929) |
| Authorities |
Simmonds
1956, Noltie 1994. |
| Section |
Eumusa |
| Distribution |
(Bhutan). |
| Description |
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| References |
Noltie 1994, Novak 1992, Simmonds 1956, Simmonds and Weatherup 1990. |
| Comments |
Simmonds 1956 comments that "this species resembles Musa acuminata
and on purely morphological grounds would be best treated as the northernmost subspecies
of it. It differs from all known forms of acuminata in bract colour, in the
male flowers suffused with orange yellow, in the virtually complete methylation of the
bract anthocyanins (Simmonds, Ann. Bot. Lond. 18, 474, 1954) and, above all, in its
breeding behaviour in which it shows itself to be more closely allied to some species of Rhodochlamys
than to any other known Eumusa (Simmonds, J. Genet. 51, 32 (1952); Shepherd,
unpublished)". Simmonds
and Weatherup's 1990 numercial taxonomic study of Musa tends to support the
status of Musa flaviflora as a subs-species of M. acuminata Colla rather
than a species in its own right. |
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