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Musa laurentii
Musa laurentii E. A. J. De Wildeman, Mission E. Laurent, 1: 371 - 374, t.
130, fig. 61 - 62. (1907) and Pl. Trop. de Grande Culture, 1: 379 (1908).
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 laurentii (E. A. J. De Wildeman) E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
Authorities |
The
source for the accepted name is Baker and Simmonds 1953 as corrected (please see link
below). The
synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
Section |
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Distribution |
Stanleyville,
Congo. |
Description |
Leaves
with a green midrib. Bracts 14 in. long, 4½ in. broad, elliptical, narrowing
towards apex. Perianth three-lobed, 1¼ - 1½ in. long ; free petal rather more than
½ in. long, rounded at apex with awn-like mucro. Flowers 18 - 23 in two rows under
each bract, nine to thirteen on the inner row, and nine to ten on the outer row.
Fruit 4 - 5 in. long.
(Fawcett
1913). |
References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953: 406, Champion 1967: 41, Cheesman
1947a: 103, De Wildeman 1907: 371-374, De Wildeman 1912, Durand & Durand 1909, Fawcett 1913: 278. |
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.
Type specimen E. & M. Laurent, 15.01.1904, Stanleyville (now Kisangani), Democratic
Republic of Congo in Herbarium Bruxelles at Meise. |
Compiled
partly with information from Gerda Rossel
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