Musa flava Ridl.

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 76

88. Musa flava Ridl.

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Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Botany ser. 2, 3: 385 (1893) . — Type: Malaysia, Pulau Tijau [Pahang River], VIII.1891, H [enry] R [idley] (lecto-, SING 0058710!, here designated; syn-, SING 0058709!, [ Malaysia], Pulau Tijau [Pahang River ], 189[1], H [enry] R [idley]).

Musa acuminata Colla var. flava (Ridl.) Nasution, Memoirs of the Tokyo University of Agriculture 32: 58 (1991).

REMARKS

There are two syntype sheets of M. flava at SING, but it is not possible to judge if they represent the same collection. These were not pointed separately when Nasution (1991) designated the type. The lectotype sheet, here designated bears handwritten notes on the sheet and the collection year and month is given. In the syntype sheet that informa- tion is lacking. According to de Wildeman (1912: 338) M. flava is synonymous to M. acuminata subsp. malaccensis , and according to Simmonds (1957: 466) it is merely a yellow-bracted mutant of M. acuminata subsp. malaccensis (Ridl.) N.W. Simmonds. Varietal treatment ( Nasution 1991) is accepted here.

Figures

FIG. 2. — Lectotype of Musa flava Ridl. (HR s.n., SING).