Musa buchanani Baker

Väre, Henry & Häkkinen, Markku, 2011, Typification and check-list of Ensete Horan. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 33 (2), pp. 191-200 : 195

8. Musa buchanani Baker

Annals of Botany (Oxford) 7: 207 (1894). — Ensete buchanani (Baker) Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2: 102 (1948). — Type: [ Malawi] Nyasaland, Shire Highlands, [1885], J. Buchanan 470 (lecto-, K000099717 , designated by Baker & Simmonds [1954: 405]) .

REMARKS

The seeds from which this plant was raised were received from Mr. John Buchanan in 1885 ( Baker 1894). This name is synonymous with Ensete edule ( Baker & Simmonds 1954) , i.e. E. ventricosum .