Musa acuminata malaccensis

Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. malaccensis (H. N. Ridley) N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956).

Accepted name	Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. malaccensis (H. N. Ridley) N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956).
Synonyms	1. Musa malaccensis H. N. Ridley Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. 3, 385 (1893) 2. Musa acuminata L. A. Colla, the Selangor form of E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bull. 1948, 17 et seq. and N. W. Simmonds, Malayan Nat. J. 10, 3 (1955) 3. Musa flava H. N. Ridley loc. cit.; N. W. Simmonds, Ann. Bot. Lond. 10, 478 (1954) 4. Musa truncata H. N. Ridley, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 4 : 80 (1909). 5. ? Musa corneri R. E. Holltum, unpublished manuscript, Musa sp. native in Malaya, in library at RBG Kew, (typed 1974) : 15. (1944-46).
Authorities	The accepted name is from Simmonds 1956. Synonym sources are: 1 to 3 are from Simmonds 1956. 4 is from Hotta 1989 but Simmonds 1956 gave M. truncata Ridl. as a synonym of Musa acuminata Colla subsp. microcarpa (Beccari) Simmonds. In 2001 Ruth Kiew established truncata as a subspecies of Musa acuminata. 5 is inferred from Holltum's unpublished manuscript The World Checklist of Monocotyledons gives Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. malaccensis (H. N. Ridley) N. W. Simmonds as an accepted name and Musa malaccensis Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 385 (1893) and Musa flava Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 385 (1893) as synonyms..
Section	Eumusa (Musa) 1
Distribution	Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java. See map at Musa acuminata.
Description	"Slender plant usually strongly waxy, with midribs commonly (but not always) bright red beneath, with a horizontal bunch and bright red non-imbricate male bracts. [ ] If investigation should show that the same sub-species is characteristic of the lowlands of Java then the name zebrina Van Houtte would have to be used as having priority over malaccensis. Musa flava Ridl. is merely a yellow bracted mutant of the subspecies [ ]". from Simmonds 1956.
References	Burkill 1935, Cheesman 1948 b, Holttum 1944-46, Hotta 1989, Jarret 1987, Nasution 1991 (not seen), Novak 1992, Pollefys et al 2004, Simmonds 1956, Stover 1972, WCM.
Comments	I have not seen Nasution (1991) but from Pollefys et al 2004 I am unsure whether Nasution treats this as a subspecies or varietas.