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Musa holstii
Musa holstii K. M. Schumann, in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbuecher. 34: 121-124
(1905).
| 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 holstii (K. M.
Schumann) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (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 |
East Africa, West Usambara mountains (North-East Tanzania). |
| Description |
Plant
three or four times as high as a man. Leaves 16 ft. long by 3 ft., and more, broad.
Inflorescence very large, drooping. Upper bracts covering the male flowers,
long persistent. Male flowers, about ½ in. long, stalked ; perianth more or less
deeply three-lobed, lobes linear, hooded at apex ; free petal with three or sometimes five
lobes, the middle lobe oval-shaped, lateral toothed. Fruit pear-shaped about 4 in.
long by 2 in. broad. Seeds very large, about ¾ in. broad.
(Fawcett 1913, Baker & Simmonds 1953). |
| References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953: 413-414, Cheesman 1947a: 103, Fawcett 1913: 273-274, Lock 1993,
Mobot Tropicos, RHS 1956, Uphof 1968. |
| 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.
Introduced to U.K. horticulture (as Musa holstii) about 1905. |
Complied partly with information form Gerda Rossel.
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