Musa acuminata microcarpa

Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. microcarpa (O. Beccari) N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956).

Accepted name	Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. microcarpa (O. Beccari) N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 11 (3): 463 - 489 (1956).
Synonyms	Musa microcarpa O. Beccari, Nelle Foreste di Borneo, 623 (1902); E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bull. 1948, 25. Musa truncata H. N. Ridley, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 4, 80 (1909); E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bull. 1948, 26. Musa acuminata L. A. Colla, the Camerons form of N. W. Simmonds Malayan Nat. J. 10, 3 (1955)
Authorities	The accepted name and synonymy is from Simmonds 1956 (but truncata now considered a separate subspecies). The World Checklist of Monocotyledons gives Musa acuminata L. A. Colla subsp. microcarpa (O. Beccari) N. W. Simmonds as an accepted name and Musa microcarpa Becc., Nelle Forest. Borneo: 623 (1902) as a synonym. .
Section	Eumusa (Musa) 1
Distribution	Sabah & Sarawak. See map at Musa acuminata.
Description	"This subspecies is characterized by the yellowish tinge and virtual waxlessness of the foliage, by the intense chocolate brown pigmentation of sheaths and, often, midribs, by the fading purple flush on the peduncle and male rachis, by the plump non-imbricate male bud, by the bracts purple without and red within and but weakly rolled at the time of falling and by its essentially montane distribution". from Simmonds 1956.
References	Jarret 1987, Nasution 1991 (not seen), 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.