Taxon: Musa coccinea Andrews

 
Genus: Musa
    Section: Callimusa
Family: Musaceae
Nomen number: 24712
Place of publication: Bot. Repos. 1: t. 47. 1799
Comment: authorship of names in this work follows Melbourne ICN Art. 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Name Verified on: 18-Feb-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 21-May-2013
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Baileya 5:181. 1957; Dict Gard, as M. uranoscopos)

Distributional Range:

    Other:

    . presumably extinct in China

    Native:

  • Asia-Temperate

    • China: China - Guangdong, - Guangxi, - Yunnan

  • Asia-Tropical

    • Indo-China: Vietnam

    • Cultivated:

    . also cult.

References:

  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 (Vara kulturvaxt namn)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
  • Govaerts, R. World checklist of selected plant families (on-line resource). (World Checkl Sel Fam)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
  • Häkkinen, M. 2011. Wild Musaceae species in China Acta Hort. 897:81-85.
  • Häkkinen, M. 2013. Reappraisal of sectional taxonomy in Musa (Musaceae) (Taxon) 62:809-813.
  • Häkkinen, M. & H. Väre 2008. Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes (Adansonia) sér. 3, 30:73.
  • Häkkinen, M. & M. J. M. Christenhusz 2012. Identity of a Pisang - historical concepts of Musa (Musaceae) and the reinstatement of Musa troglodytarum (Folia Malaysiana) 13:6.
  • Li, L.-F. et al. 2010. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the banana family (Musaceae) inferred from multiple nuclear and chloroplast DNA fragments, with a special reference to the genus Musa Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 57:1-10.
  • Liu, A.-Z. et al. 2002. Taxonomic notes on wild bananas (Musa) from China Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 43:79.
  • Moore, H. E., Jr. 1957. Musa and Ensete the cultivated bananas (Baileya) 5:181.
  • Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991 (F Viti)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986- (Eur Gard F)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

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