Family:
Musaceae Juss.
Genus:
Musa L.

Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz

This species is accepted, and its native range is Assam to N. Thailand.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand

Recorded in error in:

China South-Central

Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz appears in other Kew resources:

First published in J. Agric. Soc. India 14: 301 (1867)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Häkkinen, M. & Väre, H. (2008). Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes Adansonia, III, 30: 63-112.
  • Häkkinen, M. (2005). Ornamental bananas: notes on the section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae) Folia Malaysiana 6: 49-72.
  • Liu, A.Z., Li, D.Z. & Li, X.W. (2002). Taxonomic notes on wild bananas (Musa) from China Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica 43: 77-81.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Häkkinen, M. (2005). Ornamental bananas: notes on the section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae) Folia Malaysiana 6: 49-72.
  • Liu, A.Z., Li, D.Z. & Li, X.W. (2002). Taxonomic notes on wild bananas (Musa) from China Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica 43: 77-81.
  • Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0