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Musa ventricosa
Musa ventricosa F. M. J. Welwitsch, Apontamentas Phyto-Geographicos no. 45: 545 &
587, (1859) and J. G. Baker in Ann. Bot. 7: 206 (1893).
| Accepted name |
Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E.
Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947) and R. E. D. Baker & N. W. Simmonds, Kew
Bulletin 8 (3): 405 (1953) with correction in Kew Bulletin 8 (4): 574 (1953). |
| Synonyms |
See Ensete ventricosum. |
| Authorities |
The authority for the accepted name is Baker & Simmonds
1953 as corrected (please see link below). |
| Distribution |
Tropical East Africa. |
| Description |
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| References |
Argent 1984, Baker & Simmonds 1953 : 405, Cheesman 1947 : 101, GRIN, Lock 1993 : 3, Mobot Tropicos. |
| Comments |
One of a number African Musa transferred to Ensete
by Cheesman and eventually absorbed via Ensete edule into the highly polymorphic Ensete
ventricosum.
With the possible exception of Musa acuminata on Pemba Island off the Tanzanian
coast there are no wild African Musa, see Musa
acuminata.
Type: Welwitsch no. 6447, Pungo Andongo, Angola, 1857- "species ab omnibus mihi
hujus generis cognitis caule basi bulboso-inflato et bracteis etiam sub statu fructifero
persistentibus etc. distincta", in Herb. Kew. In Herb. Mus. Brit. are male
flowers (with two additional lobes on the outer tepals, as in our Uganda material) bearing
the same number and date and the note "Stem swollen above the ground, 8 - 10 ft.
high." |
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