Musa ensete J.F.Gmel. var. ensete

Väre, Henry & Häkkinen, Markku, 2011, Typification and check-list of Ensete Horan. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 33 (2), pp. 191-200 : 192

1. Musa ensete J.F.Gmel. var. ensete

Systema Naturae 13, 2: 567 (1791). — Type: Bruce (1790), Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia 6: pl. 21, figs 1 and 2 (lecto-, designated by Baker & Simmonds [1954: 406], “ type ”). Ensete edule Horan. , Prodromus Monographiae Scitamine-

arum: 40 (1862).

REMARKS

This name is synonymous with Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman. First E. edule was considered as a valid name ( Baker & Simmonds 1954) for this taxon, but later it was corrected. Ensete ventricosum is an older name, and has thus priority ( Simmonds 1954). Also later Simmonds (1960) treated E. ventricosum as species, without pointing out the synonymic status of E. edule . Cheesman (1948: 100) considered both E. edule and E. ventricosum as different species. Currently, they are treated conspecific, but it is obvious that further studies are required to clarify their relationship.