MusaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Musa ornata W. Roxburgh
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- Common Name:
- Family: Musaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Bangladesh, Burma, Chittagong Hills of India
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. M. rosacea of auth., not Jacq.]
Cespitose, rhizomatous, tree-like herb with Pseudostems to 9 feet high, 4 inches in diameter, pale green and waxy, developing black blotches; leaves to 6 feet long, 14 inches wide, medium green and slightly glaucous, often red-flushed on midrib beneath; inflorescence erect, glabrous; female flowers in a single row, 3-5 in each of as many as 7 clusters, male bud top-shaped, acute, bracts more or less grooved, somewhat glaucous, pale pink, tipped with yellow, similar to darker within, usually only one lifted at a time, male flowers in a single row, 3-6 in each bract; fruit to 3.12 inches long, 0.75 inches in diameter, pale greenish-yellow with white pulp, seeds warty, black, angular-depressed, about 1/4 inch wide, 1/8 inch thick.
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 199700040
- Source: Ron Beckwith - UMass, Amherst
- Accession Date: 07-29-1997
- Bench: 1202 - N Bench
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 08-30-2008
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
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- Family: Musaceae
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References:
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- The Musaceae Website
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