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Musa
seemanii
Musa seemanii (or Musa seemanni)
F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta
Phytographić Australić
9: 169, 190 (1875).
| Accepted name |
none
- undetermined cultivated form of a Fe'i banana. |
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| Section |
Australimusa |
| Distribution |
Fiji. |
| Description |
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| References |
Anon 1906 : 18, 19 (illus.), Baker 1893, Kurz1877 : 163, Stover & Simmonds 1987. |
| Comments |
Musa seemanii (or
possibly M. seemanni) was applied by von Mueller to a group of "wild"
or occasionally cultivated plants grown for fruit in Fiji. The clones probably originated
by hybridisation of a range of species possibly including Musa maclayi, Musa jackeyi,
Musa angustigemma, Musa peekelii and possibly others as yet undescribed. Stover & Simmonds caution that the Fe'i bananas are so
poorly understood that the application of Latin binomials to them is "unwise". |
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