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In Takensoin Nakai's paper this plant keys out as follows: Ovarium triloculare
- Ovarium sine columna centrali
- Ovula in quoque loculo ovarii
longitudine 2-seralia [ ]
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Ovula in medio septorum posita opposita, nunquam axillaria.
Fructus
divaricati-biseriales polyspermi, spermis verrucosis.
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Folius subtus petiolique non pruinosa. Bracteae
atro-sanguineae
vel purpureo-castaneae.
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Folia basi acuta vel obtusa
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Pseudocaulis niger elatus. Folia subtus albescentia.
Bractae
ovatae extus atrosanguineae intus sanguineae.
Fructus
villosi. Semina 4 - 5 mm lata.
Nakai also
comments that "this is only
known by a cultivated plant in Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens (Section XII, B). It is
said that it has been brought back from East-Java by Prof. Dammerman, the seventh director
of the garden, but its reality is suspectable. It is a tall, slender banana with
black stem, narrow leaves (the length is six or seven times longer than the breadth) with
whitish but not pruinose undersurface, very white haired ovaries and brown haired fruits
full of angular verrucose seeds." |