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Musa ulugurensis
Musa ulugurensis O. Warburg & O. Moritz ex O.
Warburg, Der Tropenpflanzer 8: 116 (1904).
Accepted name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (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 ulugurense (O. Warburg & O. Moritz) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 103 (1947). |
Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link below). The synonym is from Cheesman 1947. |
Distribution |
Tanzania (Uluguru, German East Africa). |
Description |
Plant over 20 ft. high. Trunk about 2 ft. in diameter
at base. Leaves 16 ft. long. Inflorescence drooping. Female flowers
(before opening) 6 in. long, off-white. Perianth (not yet open) 2 in. long, divided
nearly to the base into three obtuse lobes with two linear strips on the inside
alternating with the lobes and about as long ; free petal about ½ in. long, with broad
wings which form lateral lobes at the apex, the median lobe long cuspidate. Fruits
pale-yellow when ripe, 4 in. long, 2 in. thick ; 100 - 150 per bunch, forming a spherical
conglomeration. Seeds black, 10 - 20 per fruit, about ¾ in. long and ½ in. broad,
embedded in orange-coloured pulp. Male flowers and subtending bracts
deciduous.
(Moritz 1903, Warburg 1904, Fawcett 1913, Stuhlmann 1909). |
References |
Baker &
Simmonds 1953: 406, Cheesman 1947a: 103, De Wildeman 1912: 358, Fawcett
1913: 274 - 275, Lock 1993: 3, Mobot
Tropicos, Moritz 1903: 550 - 551, Stuhlmann 1909: 60, Uphof 1968,
Warburg 1904: 116 - 119, Warburg & Moritz 1905: 121. |
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.
Type: probably Berlin (+). |
Compiled partly with information from Gerda Rossel.
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