Musa simiarum var violacea

Musa simiarum var. violacea

Musa simiarum var. violacea W. S. Kurz, J. Agr. Hort. Soc. Ind. 14: 298 (1866).

Accepted name	Musa acuminata L. A. Colla, Memoria della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 25 : 384 (1820). [Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del Medesimo 66 (1820).] and E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 3 (1): 22 (1948).
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Authorities	Cheesman 1948b
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Distribution
Description	"Stem blackish purple, leaves blackish-purple spotted, purplish beneath; flowers dirty purple; fruits 5 - 3 angled, with a thick and obtuse beak, purple, many seeded (or in the cultivated form seedless). Of this variety only one cultivated form has occurred to me with purple or red fruits of an excellent quality called Peesang teembaga or P. hoorang by the Malays (copper or crab plantain)". from Kurz 1866 : 297.
References	Cheesman 1948b : 19, Kurz 1866 : 297.
Comments	Cheesman notes that there can be no doubt that Kurz's variety violacea is a form of the polymorphic Musa acuminata.