India, Häkkinen & Väre, 2008

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 72

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scientific name	India
status

Treatment

57. Musa champa Baker View in CoL

in Hooker, Flora of the British India 6: 262 (1892). —

Type: Anonymous (lecto-, K!, here designated).

Musa sapientum L. var. champa (Baker) Baker, Annals View in CoL of Botany (Oxford) 7: 213 (1893); Musa paradisiaca L. subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze var. champa (Baker) K.Schum. , in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV.45: 20 (1900).

REMARKS

Baker (1892) gave the author as “Hort.”, referring to a botanical garden. The description “stem and midrib of the leaf red, fruit pale straw-coloured about 6 in. long” refer to some cultivated banana.