Musaceae
Ensete

Ensete glaucum (Roxb.) Cheesman

First published in Kew Bull. 2: 101 (1947 publ. 1948)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Central Nepal to Papuasia. It is a herbaceous tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
  • Kuo, M.L. (ed.) (2012). Flora of Taiwan, ed. 2, Suppl.: 1-414. Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan, Second Edition, National Taiwan University.
  • Smith, A.C. (1979). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 1: 1-495. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
  • Valmayor, R.V., Danh, L.D. & Hakkinen, M. (2005). The wild and ornamental Musaceae of Vietnam with descriptions of two new traveling bananas. Philippine Agricultural Scientist 88: 236-244.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Kuo, M.L. (ed.) (2012). Flora of Taiwan, ed. 2, Suppl.: 1-414. Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan, Second Edition, National Taiwan University.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Simmonds, N.W. [B.E.10], New Guinea 18165.000 No
Womersley, J.S. [B.E.39] 20330.000 No
Womersley, J.S., New Guinea 20331.000 No
Simmonds, N.W. [28], New Guinea 22140.000 No
Simmonds, N.W. [B.E. 72], Thailand 22141.000 No
MacGregor, W. [s.n.], New Guinea K000292260 Unknown type material Yes

Sources

  • Art and Illustrations in Digifolia

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images