Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, C, 45

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1043. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in India

Distribution: India

Note: Cultivated throughout the tropics.

Type Specimens

• LT: "Musa cliffortiana" in Linnaeus, Musa Cliff., unnumbered plate (1736)

  • Lectotype designated by:  Argent, G. C. G. 1993. Musa L. Regnum Veg. 127: 68.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Zingiberales Griseb.
• family:  !!Musaceae Juss.
• genus:  Musa L.

Projects: Pakistan

Common Names:

• banana (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• plantain (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.

Keywords: PAK, tdb