Musa jaheri

Musa jaheri

Musa jaheri T. Nakai, Bulletin of the Tokyo Science Museum. No. 22. II: 17 (1948).

Accepted name	none - an undetermined cultivated banana
Synonyms
Authorities	The World Checklist of Monocotyledons lists Musa jaheri Nakai, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 22: 18 (1948) as an accepted name.
Section
Distribution	Borneo (Kalimantan)
Description	Nakai keys out this plant as follows: Ovarium triloculare Ovarium sine columna centrali Ovula in quoque loculo ovarii longitudine 2-serialia [ ] Ovula in placentis axillaribus biserialia Spica declinata vel subhorizontali patens Bracteae supra axin inflorescentiae 3-seriali dextrorsim spirali collocatae Flores faeminei biseriales in bractea 10 - 30, ovario 4 - 5 angulato Flores masculi vel hermaphroditi bene evoluti [ ],semper biseriales Placenta axillaria haud bene evoluta cum ovulis longitudine biseralibus - Subgen. Eumusa Baker, sensu diversa Flores basals faeminei fertiles fructus veros formantes Axis inflorescentiae velutina - Sect. Paradisiacae Folia subtus pruinosa Pseudocaulis elatior 3 - 7 m. altus. Folia longitudine 4 - 6-plo superantia - Subsect. Eu-Paradisiacae The subgenera, section and subsection referred to above are of Nakai's own devising.
References	Index Kewensis, Nakai 1948: 18.
Comments	Takenosin Nakai says of this in his idiosyncratic English; "This banana has been found by the late native foreman JAHERI in Poeto[ ]sibouw of Mid-Borneo. By the spreading flowers and fruits it seems to approach to Musa ingrata, but has no central axis in the ovary. JAHERI is said to have been cleverest foreman the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden ever had, and Mr. Bruggeman, curator of the garden, told me that he was greater than the addition of ATIEH and IRSAN, most distinguished foremen at present. JAHERI passed in his seventieth about ten years ago. The nomenclature after his name must be the first example that the name of Indonesian was crowned to a new species". No doubt Nakai made a genuine attempt to commemorate Jaheri but with an inadequate description and no type identified I do not see how the WCM can accept the name.