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Musa glauca
Musa glauca W. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 19 (1814) (nomen), Corom. Pl. t. 300,
96-98 (1819-1820), Flora Indica 2: 490 (1824) (descr.); ibid. ed. 2, 1: 669
(1832).
Accepted name |
Ensete glaucum (W.
Roxburgh) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947). |
Synonyms |
1. Musa nepalensis N.
Wallich, in W. Roxburgh, Flora Indica 2: 490 (1824) and ibid. ed. 2 vol. 1: 669
(1832). 2. Musa gigantea C. E.
O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 691 (1891).
3. Musa calosperma F.
J. H. von Mueller, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 355 (1885)
and Gardeners' Chronicle series 3, 20: 369 & 467 fig. 85 (1896).
4.
Musa wilsonii W. J. Tutcher, Gardeners' Chronicle series
3, 32: 450 [fig. 151: 451] (1902), and Revue Horticole 34 (1903).
5. Ensete calospermum (F.
J. H. von Mueller) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 102 (1947).
6. Ensete wilsonii (W.
J. Tutcher) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947).
7. Musa agharkarii A.
K. Chakravorti, Journal of the Indian botanical Society 27 (2): 93 (1948).
8. Ensete gigantea (C. E. O. Kuntze) T. Nakai,
Bulletin of the Tokyo Science Museum 22: 12 (1948).
9. Ensete nepalensis
(N. Wallich) E. E. Cheesman, err. cal. N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 14 (2): 212
(1960).
10. Ensete agharkarii (A.
K. Chakravorti) D. K. Hore, B. D. Sharma & G. Pandey, Journal of economic and
taxonomic Botany 16 (2): 447-455 (1992). |
Authorities |
Sources for the accepted name are Cheesman 1947a and
Simmonds 1960.
Sources of synonymy are as follows:
1. from Hara et al 1978, Hotta 1989 and Flora Xizangica
2 & 8. from Hotta 1989 (but see comments at Musa gigantea)
3, 4, 5 & 6. from Simmonds 1960
7 & 10. from Rao & Hajra 1976
9. from Hara et al 1978, Hotta 1989, Simmonds 1960 (but see comments at Ensete
nepalensis) |
Section |
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Distribution |
Myanmar (Burma, where the original collection was made by
Roxburgh when it was part of India sensu lato). |
Description |
Trunk 10 - 12 ft. long, 6 - 8 in. in diameter, not
suckering. Leaves 4 - 5 ft. long, pale and glaucous, shortly stalked.
Inflorescence drooping from the base. Perianth about 1 in. long, with three loosely
coherent, linear segments. Free petal small, three-cuspidate. Fruit oblong, 4
- 5 in. long, 1½ in. in diameter. Seeds smooth, globose, nearly black, ½ in. in
diameter. (Fawcett 1913). |
References |
Argent 1976: 82, Backer 1924,
Baker 1893: 209-210, Baker
1894a, Blanco 1845, Chakravorti 1951, Champion 1967: 40, Cheesman
1947a: 101, De Wildeman 1912, Fawcett 1913: 266, GRIN, Hara et al 1978, Hotta
1989, Howes 1928, IBPGR, Kurz
1877: 161 & 165, Mobot Tropicos, Quisumbing 1919, Rao
& Hajra 1976: 208-209, Reynolds 1927 (illus.), Sagot 1887: 329, Schumann 1912,
Simmonds 1956, Simmonds
1960: 205, von Mueller 1896. |
Comments |
See discussion at Ensete glaucum. |
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