Musa acuminata var. tomentosa (Warb. ex K.Schum.) Nasution

Seed Collecting Guide. RBG Kew (2013-2016)

Morphology Stem

medium clump, up to 10 stem; pseudostem tall and slender, 4.0 - 4.75 m high, 13-15 cm diameter, brownish blotching without wax

Morphology Leaves

leaf blades big, oblong or lanceolate, 260-310 cm long, 60-70 cm wide, apex truncate, base rounded with unequal lobes, green, thinly glaucous leaf of seedlings usually blotched with bars of purplish brown pigementation around mid-rib

Morphology Leaves Petiole

petioles long, 60-70 cm with purplish brown markings; their margins erect; mid-rib usually pink but sometimes yellowish green

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

inflorescence pendulous, short, 1.5 m long, its peduncle and rachis thinly pubescent

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts

first bract scar openly encircling

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

fruit medium, 9-10 cm long, 1.8-2.0 cm across, pedicel 1.3-1.5 cm, tip 0.5-0.6 cm long basal hands each bear 16-20 fruit but those on the apex 10-14 fruit fruit and flower biserate; 10 -12 hands per bunch, 10-12 fruit per hand pericarp thin, pulp yellowish, slightly soft when ripe

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

seed many, 105-120 per fruit, irregularly angular, depressed, not smooth, 6.0-6.4 mm across, black when ripe

Morphology General Buds

male bud ovoid, 11-12 cm long, convolute, tip acute, dark purple or yellow, thinly waxy.

Ecology

ecology open places, but sometimes under shade as well. altitude0 - 600 m.

Distribution

Native to Indonesia. found in sulawesi.

Conservation

conservation data deficient

Phenology

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