Musa rhinozerotis

Musa rhinozerotis W. S. Kurz

Accepted name  
Synonyms Musa acuminata L. A. Colla
Authorities The synonym is from Hotta 1989.
Section  
Distribution  
Description Kurz keys out this taxon as follows:

Flowering spadix nodding. Plant soboliferous.
     Spathes convolute, more or less channelled, more or less pruinose
     outside.
          All spathes and flower-whorls developed, the sterile ones forming a
          cone.
               Seeds variously tuberculed.
                    Spathes all marcescent-persistent.
                         Short-stemmed and exactly like M. nana, but the leaf
                         sheaths all enveloping each other ; flowers all fertile.

References Anon 1906 : 17, Champion 1967 : 42, Hotta 1989, Kurz 1877 : 164, 165.
Comments "Said to be like M. nana [=Musa (AAA group) 'Dwarf Cavendish'], but with all the sheathes of the leaves enveloping one another, and with persistent bracts and flowers all fertile"; from Anon 1906.

Hotta mis-spells the name M. rhinocerotis






 


last revision 23 April 2003