     
Taxon: Ravenala madagascariensis Sonn.
Genus: Ravenala
Family: Strelitziaceae.
Nomen number: 30899
Place of publication: Voy. Indes orient. 2:223. 1782
Name verified on: 20-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Jan-2000
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- traveler's-palm (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- traveler's-tree (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- arbre du voyageur (Source: Zander Ency
) – French
- ravenale (Source: Ansel 14. 2006) – French
- baum der Reisenden (Source: Zander Ency
) – German
- ravinala (Source: Ansel 14. 2006) – Malagasy
- palma de viajero (Source: Trop Flow Pl
) – Spanish
- de resandes träd (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- AFRICA
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
Naturalized:
- AFRICA
Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Abbiw, D. K.
1990. Useful plants of Ghana.
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Ansel, J.-L.
2006. L'arbre du voyageur in Les Saveurs des arbres.
14.
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
- Dransfield, J. & H. Beentje.
1995. The palms of Madagascar.
[mentions].
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- Llamas, K. A.
2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- Webster's third new international dictionary.
- More:
Check other web resources for Ravenala madagascariensis Sonn.:
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- 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.
Images:
- 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.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30899 (20 May 2013)
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