Descriptions
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44392854/44482983
- Conservation
- LC - least concern
Musaceae, F. N. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Africa 3:1. 1968
- Morphology General Habit
- A wild banana of hilly grassland savanna.
- Morphology Stem
- The leafy young stem dies back to a hard round corm about 1 ft. across remaining on the soil surface
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits Infructescences
- Fertile stem nodding, bearing a mass of small fruits about 2 in. long with yellow or orange pulp and large dark brown seeds which are later exposed by longitudinal splitting of the fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male bracts mauve.
- sex Male
- Male bracts mauve.
Sources
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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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
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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