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Musa sundaica
Musa sundaica T. Nakai, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus., No. 22. II: 14 (1948).
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? Musa acuminata
L. A. Colla, Memoria della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 25 : 384 (1820).
[Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del Medesimo 66 (1820).] and E. E. Cheesman, Kew
Bulletin 3 (1): 22 (1948). |
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Index Kewensis, Nakai 1948 : 14. |
| Comments |
Takenosin Nakai gives the local (Sundanese) name as 'Tjau
utan' or forest banana. He says of this in his idiosyncratic English, "the general habit of this banana resembles Musa malaccensis and Musa
zebrina, but differs from the former by having the septal placenta and from the
latter by the acute or roundish base, not dark striated on the upper surface, and greenish
yet pruinose undersurface of the leaves. It is common in the forest of West and
Central-Java. Natives use its leaves for wrappers and dishes, and the fibres for ropes.
The fruits are full of seeds, being the food of monkeys." The similarity to Musa
malaccensis and Musa zebrina suggests that, like them, this is a form of Musa
acuminata although it is Musa balbisiana that is a better fibre plant. |
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