Musa prematura

Musa prematura T. Nakai, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus., No. 22. II: 16 (1948).

Accepted name Musa (AAA group?) 'Pisang seburang'
Synonyms Musa acuminata L. A. Colla
Authorities Nakai himself gives the local name.

The synonym is from Hotta 1989.

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References Hotta 1989, Index Kewensis, Nakai 1948 : 16.
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 a cultivated banana found everywhere in West Java, but not abundantly.  Its ripe fruits within one or one and half month after flower, so it received the native name Pisang Semburang.  Ordinarily its fruits are eaten by roasting by cocoa-nut oil".

Hotta's synonym implies that this is a AA, or perhaps more likely, an AAA group banana.


 


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