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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Musa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Musa

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Zingiberidae Cronquist pub. 1978       SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb. pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.       Familia  Musaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 61. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Bananas       Subfamilia  Musoideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 28. Apr-Mai 1836.       Tribus  Museae Benth. pub. Fl. Austral. 6: 261. 23 Sep 1873.       Genus  Musa L. pub. (1753) common name: banana, plantain

Named members of the Genus Musa

1	Species  acuminata Colla common name: edible banana
2	Species  balbisiana Colla common name: banana
3	Species  cavendishii Lamb. ex Paxton syn. Musa acuminata common name: cavendish banana, canary banana
4	Species  chinensis Lamb. ex Paxton syn. Musa acuminata
5	Species  ensete Gmelin syn. Ensete ventricosum
6	Species  ornata Roxb.
	7    Varietas  normalis Kuntze syn. Musa �paradisiaca
8	Species  sapientum L. syn. Musa �paradisiaca common name: sweet banana
9	Species  textilis Nee common name: abaca
10	Species  troglodytarum L. common name: fe'i banana
11	Species  velutina H. Wendl. & Drude common name: hairy banana
12	Species  x paradisiaca L. (pro sp.) common name: French plantain
13	Species  zebrina Van Houtte ex Planch. syn. Musa acuminata

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.