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Musa megalocarpa
Musa megalocarpa T. Nakai, Bulletin of the Tokyo Science Museum. No.
22. II: 17 (1948).
| Accepted name |
Musa (?AAB group) 'Pisang Galek' |
| Synonyms |
1. Musa paradisiaca L. subsp. normalis
O. Kuntze in part.
2. Musa acuminata L. A. Colla |
| Authorities |
Nakai himself gives the local name. Synonyms:
1. is cited by
Nakai.
2. is from Hotta 1989. |
| Section |
Eumusa |
| Distribution |
Indonesia (Java). |
| Description |
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| References |
Hotta 1989, Nakai 1948
: 11, 17. |
| Comments |
This is one of several Indonesian banana cultivars given a spurious species name
by Takenosin Nakai. Nakai says of it in his idiosyncratic English; "This is a banana which affords biggest fruits among javanese bananas.
The glabrous stoutest axis of fruiting bunch (5 - 6 cm in diameter) with few (5 -
12) long (25 - 33 cm) horn-shaped fruits in each hand gives a magnificent outlook.
As a cooking banana none can surpass it in its quality and quantity. Natives
who go in mountain forest to gather fuels take two fruits only with them. They roast
one of them in the late afternoon and another in the next morning as those two are enough
for their food. Botanists often mingle Pisang tandok (Musa corniculata)
and Pisang Lempeneng (Musa pallida) with this and put together under Musa
paradisiaca L. or common plantain, but that is away from reality. All of them
belong to different group". The "group"
referred to is not a Shepherd & Simmonds genome group but one of Nakai's own devising.
Hotta frequently gives Musa acuminata as a synonym for cultivated, fruiting
bananas. Even where the cultivar is derived exclusively from Musa acuminata
I think this is simplistic and unhelpful. But here it is plain wrong. This
plant obviously has some M. balbisiana in it and is most probably an AAB. |
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