- Family:
- Musaceae Juss.
Ensete Bruce ex Horan.

[FTEA]
Musaceae, J.M.Lock. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1993
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial giant herbs from an unbranched corm-like base
- Note
- Whole plant dying after flowering
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves very large; sheaths imbricate, forming a pseudostem.
Native to:
Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Gulf of Guinea Is., Juan Fernández Is.
Ensete Bruce ex Horan. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 40 (1862)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Baker & Simmonds in Kew Bull. 8: 405 (1953).
- Cheesman in Kew Bull. 2: 97 (1947)
- Prod. Monogr. Scit. 40, t .4 (1862)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Cheesman in KB. 2: 97-106 (1948)
- Prodr. Scitam.: 40 (1862)
- R.E. Baker & Simm. in KB. 8: 405-416, 574 (1953)
- Simm. in KB. 14: 198-212 (1960)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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