Musa acuminata subsp. microcarpa (Becc.) N.W.Simmonds

Seed Collecting Guide. RBG Kew (2013-2016)

Morphology General Habit

medium clump up to 9 stem; pseudostem slender, tall, 4.0 - 4.5 m high, 14 - 15 cm diameter, purplish brown blotching without wax

Morphology Leaves Petiole

petioles 60 - 70 en long, brown blotching; their margins erect or incurved; mid rib pink

Morphology Leaves

leaf on seedlingsusually ornamented with bars of purplish brown pigmentation around thir midrib leaf blades big, lanceolate, 320 - 330 cm long, 80 - 90 cm wide, apex truncate, base rounded with unequal lobes, yellowish green, thinly glaucous

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

inflorescence pendulous, up to 1.4 m long

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles

its peduncle thinly pubescent with borwn hairs

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts

first bract scar openly encircling

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

pericarp thin, pulp yellowish, slightly soft when ripe fruit medium, 8-9 cm long, 1.8-2.0 cm diameter, pedicel 0.8-0.9 cm long, tip 0.5 cm long fruit and flower biseriate; 10 -11 hands per bunch, 20 - 21 fruit per hand but those on the apex 12-14 fruit

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

seed many, 100 - 110 per fruit, irregularly angular, depressed, smooth, 5.0-5.5cm diameter, black when ripe

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

male flower small, 18-19 flower per hand. basal flower female, 7.8-7.9 cm long, 0.9cm across male bud ovoid, 10-11 cm long, 6-7 cm diameter, convolute, tip acute, purple, thinly glaucous

Ecology

ecology open places. altitude100 m

Distribution

Native to Indonesia, found in kalimantan both in the Southern and Western part. in malay peninsula, it has been reported to be found in malacca and serdang.

Conservation

conservation endangered

Phenology

phenology Flower (no data), fruit (no data)