Musa dacca

Musa x dacca

Musa x dacca Hort. Berol. ex P. F. Horaninow, Prodromus Monographiae Scitaminarum: 41 (1862).

Accepted name	not known - an undetermined cultivated banana or Musa x paradisiaca L., Species Plantarum : 1043 (1753).
Synonyms
Authorities	The World Checklist of Monocotyledons lists Musa × dacca Horan., Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 41 (1862), Musa × sapientum var. dacca (Horan.) Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 7: 213 (1893), Musa × paradisiaca var. dacca (Horan.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 45: 20 (1900) as synonyms of Musa × paradisiaca L., Sp. Pl.: 1043 (1753) which is given as the accepted name.
Section
Distribution
Description	RHS 1956 gives the following description for 'Dacca' which is said to "belong" to M. x paradisiaca sapientum; flowers green at base and tip, about 4 in (10 cm) long, leaves pale green, leaf-stalk edged red.
References	Baker 1893: 213, GRIN, Kurz, 1877 : 162, RHS 1956
Comments	Published as Musa dacca the "x" is added to indicate its presumed hybridity. In this context Musa x paradisiaca is effectively the same as "an undetermined cultivated banana". This should not be read as implying that Musa x dacca is Musa (AAB group) 'French' plantain, Cheesman's identification of Musa x paradisiaca L. (Cheesman 1948). According to Kurz, Horaninow uses M. dacca to apply to a banana "much cultivated in European hothouses" (Hort. Berol. implies Berlin) but that little was known about it.