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Musa jaheri
Musa jaheri T. Nakai, Bulletin of the Tokyo Science Museum. No. 22.
II: 17 (1948).
| Accepted name |
not known, probably a form of Musa acuminata. |
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| Distribution |
Borneo (Kalimantan) |
| Description |
Nakai keys out this plant as follows: Ovarium triloculare
Ovarium sine columna centrali
Ovula in quoque loculo ovarii
longitudine 2-serialia [ ]
Ovula
in placentis axillaribus biserialia
Spica declinata vel subhorizontali patens
Bracteae supra axin inflorescentiae 3-seriali dextrorsim
spirali collocatae
Flores faeminei biseriales in bractea 10 - 30, ovario 4 - 5
angulato
Flores masculi vel hermaphroditi bene evoluti [ ],
semper biseriales
Placenta axillaria haud bene evoluta cum ovulis
longitudine biseralibus
- Subgen. Eumusa Baker, sensu diversa
Flores basals faeminei fertiles fructus veros
formantes
Axis inflorescentiae velutina
- Sect. Paradisiacae
Folia subtus pruinosa
Pseudocaulis elatior 3 - 7 m. altus.
Folia longitudine 4 - 6-plo superantia
- Subsect. Eu-Paradisiacae
The subgenera,
section and subsection referred to above are of Nakai's own devising. |
| References |
Index Kewensis, Nakai
1948: 18. |
| Comments |
Takenosin Nakai says of this in his idiosyncratic English; "This banana has been found by the late native
foreman JAHERI in Poeto[ ]sibouw of Mid-Borneo By the spreading flowers and fruits
it seems to approach to Musa ingrata, but has no
central axis in the ovary. JAHERI is said to have been cleverest foreman the
Buitenzorg Botanical Garden ever had, and Mr. Bruggeman, curator of the garden, told me
that he was greater than the addition of ATIEH and IRSAN, most distinguished foremen at
present. JAHERI passed in his seventieth about ten years ago. The nomenclature
after his name must be the first example that the name of Indonesian was crowned to a new
species". No doubt Nakai made a
genuine attempt to commemorate Jaheri but this taxon is invalid. |
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