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Musa ruandensis
Musa ruandensis E. A. J. De Wildeman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 8: 111 (1923).
| Accepted
name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (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 ruandense (E. A. J. De Wildeman) E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 2 (2): 104 (1947) |
| Authorities |
The
authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds 1953 as corrected (see link
below).
The synonym is from Cheesman 1947a. |
| Section |
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| Distribution |
Rwanda |
| Description |
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| References |
Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 406, Champion 1967: 42, Cheesman
1947a : 104. |
| 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. Champion has this as Musa ruandense
but I think the change of ending was made only when Cheesman transferred the species to Ensete.
Also
the page number Champion
cites in De Wildeman looks like a Roman 3 (III) when it should be 111.
Type:
cultivated at Kisantu (D. R. Congo) by J. Gillet from seed collected in Rwanda by Durand
(May 1923); in Herbarium at Brussels. |
Compiled
partly with information from Gerda Rossel
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