Musa nepalensis Wall.

Väre, Henry & Häkkinen, Markku, 2011, Typification and check-list of Ensete Horan. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 33 (2), pp. 191-200 : 197

26. Musa nepalensis Wall. , nom. illeg.

In Roxb., Flora Indica 2: 492 (1824).

REMARKS

This name is illegitimate, as the author himself does not accept it ( McNeill et al. 2006: Art 34.1a), as Wallich (1824:493) wrote: “I am doubtful if this plant ought to be considered as distinct from M. superba , or as an intermediate between that and M. glauca ”. Musa nepalensis is principally known from two large unpublished drawings by Wallich at Kew ( Baker 1894). The existence of this taxon has been questioned ( Cheesman 1948: 101; Moore 1957: 188).