Musa sanguinea Hook.f.

Native to:

Assam, East Himalaya, Tibet

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Myanmar

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• 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.
• Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Kew Bulletin

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Kew Backbone Distributions

• Häkkinen, M. (2005). Ornamental bananas: notes on the section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae). Folia Malaysiana 6: 49-72.
• Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.