Taxon: Musa acuminata Colla

• or Musa AA, AAA, and AAAA Groups
• non-hybrid forms of edible bananas

See also subordinate taxa:

• Musa acuminata var. zebrina (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. burmannica (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. errans (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. malaccensis (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. microcarpa (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. siamea (no accessions)
• Musa acuminata subsp. truncata (no accessions)

Common names:

• banana   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Cavendish banana   (Source: F Viti [as M. nana]) – English
  
• Chinese banana   (Source: F Viti [as M. nana]) – English
  
• dwarf banana   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• taw-byaw   (Source: Kew Bull 11:469.) – Transcribed Burmese   [Musa acuminata subsp. burmannica]
  
• bananier   (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
  
• bananier nain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Banane   (Source: L. Conrad, p.c.) – German
  
• Zwergbanane   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• pisang utan   (Source: Kew Bull 11:466.) – Malay   [Musa acuminata subsp. malaccensis]
  
• banana-nanica   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• nanicão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• plátano   (Source: Spanish Dict ) – Spanish
  
• bungulan   (Source: F Philipp ) – unknown
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base; fruit; vegetable   (botanical name of some diploid & triploid forms of cultivated sweet bananas with genome only of M. acuminata fide Baileya 5:170. 1957; Simmonds, Bananas 1966; Pl Res SEAs 18:130. 2000)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of A-genome bananas   (fide Simmonds, Bananas 1966; Pl Res SEAs 18:130. 2000)
  
• Materials: wax   (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:130. 2000)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania - Pemba [natzd.?]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangxi [w.], Yunnan [s.e.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

• widely cultivated

References:

• Bibliograf, S. A., eds. 1964. Vox modern college Spanish & English dictionary. (Spanish Dict)
• Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 18:130.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Conrad, L. R. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Govaerts, R. et al. World checklist of monocots - on-line resource. (L Monocots)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Häkkinen, M. & H. Väre. 2008. Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes. Adansonia sér. 3, 30:65.
• Heslop-Harrison, J. S. & T. Schwarzacher. 2007. Domestication, genomics and the future for banana. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 100:1073–1084.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1957. Musa and Ensete the cultivated bananas. Baileya 176.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Robinson, J. C. 1996. Bananas and plantains. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 5:1–238.
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district. (F Hassan) [mentions].
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti) [= M. nana].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) A:190.
• Wong, C. et al. 2001. Genetic diversity of the wild banana Musa acuminata Colla in Malaysia as evidenced by AFLP. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 88:1017–1025.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Musa acuminata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Musa acuminata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Musa acuminata subsp. burmannicoides De Langhe [= Musa acuminata subsp. burmannica]
  
• (=) Musa cavendishii Lamb.
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (=) Musa chinensis Sweet, nom. nud.
  
• Musa malaccensis Ridl. [≡ Musa acuminata subsp. malaccensis]
  
• Musa microcarpa Becc. [≡ Musa acuminata subsp. microcarpa]
  
• (=) Musa nana Lour.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Musa ×sapientum var. suaveolens (Blanco) Malag.
  
• (=) Musa sinensis Sagot ex Baker
  
• Musa troglodytarum var. errans Blanco [≡ Musa acuminata subsp. errans]
  
• Musa truncata Ridl. [≡ Musa acuminata subsp. truncata]
  
• Musa zebrina Van Houtte ex Planch. [≡ Musa acuminata var. zebrina]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Musa acuminata Colla:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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