Musa sapientum

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 90

172. Musa sapientum L. var. sapientum

Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1303 (1758). — Type: Trew, Plantae Selectae 3: t. 22 “ Musa e fructu breviore spadix floriger in magnitudine naturali ” (1752) (lecto-, designated by Cheesman [1948b: 13]).

Musa × paradisiaca L. subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze, Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomeclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum 2: 692 (1891).

REMARKS

Musa sapientum has been repeatedly times shown to represent Musa cultivars (AB, AAB, ABB group). Therefore all infraspecific taxa described represent various cultivars, unless otherwise shown. According to Simmonds (1960b), Linnaeus originally applied the name M. sapientum to the “Silk fig” (AAB group).