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Musa gilletii
Musa gilletii E. A. J. De Wildeman, Revue des Cultures Coloniales 8: 102 (1901).
| Accepted name |
Ensete gilletii (E. A.
J. De Wildeman) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
| Synonyms |
1. Musa religiosa
J. Dybowski in Rev. Hort. 72: 262 (1900) and E. A. J. De Wildeman (err. cal.),
Ann. Mus. Colon. Mars. ser. 2, 7: 245 (1909) and ser. 2, 10: 352 (1912) (nomen nudum). 2.
Musa chevalieri F. Gagnepain, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55,
mém. 8: 87 (1908), and A. Chevalier, Novitates Florae Africanae in Mémoires de la
Société Botanique de France 8: 31 - 109 (1908).
3.
Musa schweinfurthii sensu
Hutchinson & Dalziel in F.W.T.A. ed. 1, 2: 328 (1936) and not of K. M. Schumann &
O. Warburg ex K. M. Schumann in A. Engler's Pflanzenr. 4, 45: 14 (1900), ex
F. N. Hepper in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3: 69 (1968). |
| Authorities |
The
source for the accepted name is Cheesman 1947a.
Synonyms are from:1.
from Griffiths 1992 and Huxley 1994 (but see Musa religiosa).
2. & 3. from Hepper 1968. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Africa, from Malawi to Sierra Leone. |
| Description |
See Ensete gilletii for a general description of
that species. A description of the type is as follows:
Plant 5 - 8 ft. high, not suckering. Leaves about 5 ft. long. Inflorescence
drooping, short. Flowers 5 to 6 in each row. Free petal 3-toothed, nearly ½
in. long. Fruit about 2 in. long. Seeds nine or ten, about 1/3 in. long.
(Fawcett 1913). |
| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953: 407, Cheesman 1947a: 103, De
Wildeman 1903, De Wildeman 1912, Fawcett 1913: 277, Griffiths
1992, GRIN, Hepper 1968, Lock 1993, Moore 1957: 190, Reynolds 1927. |
| Comments |
This was one of a number of African Musa
transferrred to Ensete by Cheesman in his 1947 paper reviving the genus Ensete.
It is now recognised that there are no wild Musa native to Africa, only Ensete.
Many of Cheesman's Ensete were eventually reduced to synonyms of E.
ventricosum and Lock 1993 suggests E. gilletii may be no more than a
subspecies of this plant. The inclusion of Musa religiosa as synonym of Ensete
gilletii in the New RHS Dictionary of Gardening (Huxley 1992) and the Index
(Griffiths 1994) is a weird carry-over of the name from the RHS Dictionary of Gardening
(RHS 1956) in publications notable for their lack of continuity with the "first
edition". Baker & Simmonds consider M. religiosa to
be nomen nudum but do mention other evidence that makes it clear that it is Ensete
gilletii. |
Compiled
partly with information from Gerda Rossel
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