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Musa insularimontana Hayata

Species

Angiosperms > Zingiberales > Musaceae > Musa

Characteristics

Pseudostems subcylindric. Leaf blade narrow. Inflorescence pendulous, curved, slender; rachis terete, ca. 3 cm thick, densely pubescent. Bracts wholly brownish red, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 7 × 3 cm, strongly concave. Flowers sessile, ca. 8 per bract, in 2 rows. Male flowers: compound tepal cylindric, ca. 3.5 cm, outer lobes oblong-triangular, ca. 5 mm, apex corniculate; free tepal elliptic-obovate, ca. 1.5 cm, apex truncate or emarginate and shortly cuspidate. Berries cylindric, 10--12 cm; stalk ca. 4 cm, unequally 4-angled, densely pubescent.
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A banana plant. The false stem is almost round and 2.5 m tall. The flowering stalk curves and hangs down. The bracts over the flowers are 7-8 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. The bracts are hollowed out and dark purplish-red. There are 8 flowers to each bract. They are arranged in 2 groups and without stalks. The fruit stalk is hairy. The young fruit are square shaped in cross section.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It is a rare banana species in the forests in Lanyu Island in Taiwan. It grows from near sea level to 100 m above sea level.
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Usage

Uses gene source
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 7 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Optimum temperature (C°) 22 - 32
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Distribution

Musa insularimontana world distribution map, present in China and Taiwan, Province of China

Conservation status

Musa insularimontana threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:584950-1
WFO ID wfo-0000474440
COL ID 44NT3
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Musa insularimontana Musa textilis var. tashiroi
WorldFloraDB 2024