Interesting Facts
Description
Family Musaceae
Herbs perennial
or monocarpic
, growing from sympodial rhizomes or a massive, sympodial corm. Pseudostems composed of closely packed leaf sheaths
. Leaves spirally arranged
, petiolate
; leaf blade entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescence terminal
or rarely axillary
, cymose
. Bracts spirally arranged, often brilliantly colored
, spathelike, large. Flowers bisexual
or unisexual
by abortion
, zygomorphic. Perianth in 2 whorls; 3 outer tepals and 2 inner ones united
into a compound
tepal; third inner tepal free. Stamens 5, free
; anthers
2-loculed. Pistil 1; ovary inferior, 3-loculed; ovules numerous
per locule, anatropous
; placentation axile
. Style simple
or capitate. Fruit a berry, fleshy
or leathery and dry, indehiscent. Seeds hard, not arillate
; embryo straight, surrounded by a well-developed endosperm and a mealy
perisperm
.
Three genera and ca.
40 species: tropical
and subtropical
regions of Africa and Asia; three genera (one endemic) and 14 species (four endemic, three introduced
) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Zingiberanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Zingiberales
()
- Grisebach, 1854
- Suborder:
Musineae
()
- Family:
Musaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Banana Family
- Genus:
Musophyllum
()
- Specific epithet:
complicatum
- Botanical name: - Musophyllum complicatum
- Specific epithet:
complicatum
- Genus:
Musophyllum
(
- Family:
Musaceae
(
- Suborder:
Musineae
(
- Order:
Zingiberales
(
- Superorder:
Zingiberanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Musophyllum
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Further Reading
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 223, p. 224.
- Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 12 1922-1924 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 288.
- Fossil flora of the Yellowstone National Park, by Frank Hall Knowlton. Washington, Govt. Print Off., 1899. url p. 686.
- Geology of the Yellowstone National Park: Part II, descriptive geology, petrography, and paleontology / by Arnold Hague. .. [et al.]. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1899. url p. 889.
- Maryland geological survey. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1901-1923. url p. 220, p. 289.
- Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1882- url p. 686, p. 779, p. 889.
- Palaeontographica Americana. 1994 Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, url p. 203, p. 203, p. 76, p. 76.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 681.
- Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. F.V. Hayden, United States geologist in charge. .. [Final reports or monographs. vol. I]-III, V-XIII. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1873-90. url , , p. 333, p. 96.
- Report on Tertiary plants of British Columbia collected by Lawrence M. Lambe in 1906, together with a discussion of previously recorded Tertiary floras, Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1908. url , .
- Li Hsi-wen. 1981. Musaceae subfam. Musoideae. In: Wu Te-lin, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(2): 1--14.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 18, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
Identifiers
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16534568
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2690827
Footnotes
- Delin Wu & W. John Kress "Musaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 314. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Curator for this page: David Constantine. Date last reviewed: 1899-12-30
