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Musa salaccensis
Musa
salaccensis H. Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Indisch. Archip. 74 (1854) nomen nudum.
& Pl. Exsic. Jav. no. 1353 (date?).
Accepted name |
Musa
salaccensis H. Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Indisch. Archip. 74 (1854).
& Pl. Exsic. Jav. no. 1353 (date?). |
Synonyms |
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Authorities |
Cheesman
1947b, Simmonds 1960. |
Section |
Callimusa |
Distribution |
Mountains
of Java and Sumatra. |
Description |
Plant
stooling freely. Pseudostems slender, 1 - 3 m. high, rarely more than 10 cm.
diameter at base, upper part yellowish green, base red pigmented, but not waxy.
Leaves small, petiole circa 30 -35 cm. long 2 - 24 cm. wide, base unequal [right side
longest] , tip blunt ; upper side green but paler beneath, devoid of wax ; midrib purplish
in colour, marginal veins purple.
Inflorescence erect ; peduncle violet, ornamented with longitudinal lines, glabrous, up to
80 cm. long. Basal flowers female, usually 4 - 5 hands, upper flowers male.
Female flowers 2 - 4 per hand, in a single row ; staminodes 5, circa 3 cm. long ; stigma
rounded, flat ; style 4 cm. long, white in colour. Male bud in advanced blooming
ellipsoid, 14 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide, strongly imbricate with blunt tip. Usually
only one bract lifted at a time, and not revolute on fading. Male flowers 2 - 4 per
bract, uniseriate ; compound tepal linear, 5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, corrugated at tip,
green from half to tip ; free tepal lanceolate, 5 cm. long 2 cm. wide, tip obtuse.
Filaments 2.7 cm. long, white ; anthers light brown. Fruits 2 - 4 per hand,
cylindrical , roughly 4-angled, slightly curved, 9 cm. long, 2 cm. diameter, with short
pedicel. Pericarp thick, purple with green stripes along the edge. Pulp white
with weak flavour. Seeds obpyriform, ornamented with circular lines, tuberculed on
upper half, smooth on lower half. Each fruit contains 20 - 30 seeds.(Nasution
1993 - slightly edited by drc). |
References |
Backer & Bakhuizen 1968, Baker 1893 : 220, Champion 1967
: 42, Cheesman 1947b : 110, Cheesman 1949h : 26, Fawcett
1913 : 271, Hotta 1989, Kurz
1867, Nasution 1993 : 17, Simmonds 1960 : 204. |
Comments |
According to Cheesman Musa salaccensis H. Zollinger is
sometimes given as a synonym of Musa ornata W. Roxburgh but it is not; as
Cheesman notes the two are in different sections of Musa. The confusion
arose because Zollinger when naming his species added in brackets "(ornata Roxb.?)" which given the superficial similarity of the two was
a reasonable query at the time according to Cheesman. Miquel in his Flora van
Nederlandisch Indie put it the other way around and thereafter certain later authors added
Musa ornata Roxb to the synonymy of Musa salaccensis.
Although Cheesman absolves Baker of complicity, Baker (1893) and subsequently Fawcett
(1913) commented that M. salaccensis was "allied" to M. rosacea, itself a common and quite incorrect synonym
for M. ornata.
ImagesThere
are three images available of M. salaccensis the first of which is not quite in
agreement with the others. |
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