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This species is accepted, and its native range is N. Assam to N. Myanmar.
A specimen from Kew's Herbarium

Native to:

Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Tibet

Musa aurantiaca G.Mann ex Baker appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
s.coll. [s.n.], India K000308203

First published in Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 7: 222 (1893)

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). A taxonomic revision of Musa aurantiaca (Musaceae) in Southeast Asia Journal of systematics and evolution 46: 89-92.
  • 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.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Häkkinen, M. & Väre, H. (2008). A taxonomic revision of Musa aurantiaca (Musaceae) in Southeast Asia Journal of systematics and evolution 46: 89-92.
  • Häkkinen, M. (2005). Ornamental bananas: notes on the section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae) Folia Malaysiana 6: 49-72.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. 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 2021. 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