Taxon: Musa coccinea Andrews

Genus:

Musa

Section:

Callimusa

Family:

Musaceae

Nomen number:

24712

Place of publication:

Bot. Repos. 1: t. 47. 1799

Link to protologue:

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)

Typification:

Name Verified on:

18-Feb-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 19-Sep-2017

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

1 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

(=) Musa uranoscopos auct.

Common names:

scarlet banana (Source: Zander ed17) - English
scharlachrote Banane (Source: Zander ed17) - German
bananeira-florida (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
bananeira-vermelha (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
praktbanan (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
hong jiao (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

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

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China [Guangdong (extinct), Yunnan (s.e.), Guangxi]

Asia-Tropical

INDO-CHINA: Vietnam

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Other

(presumably extinct in China)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (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. (F Viti)
Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Musa coccinea Andrews :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?24712. Accessed 18 June 2018.