Musa jackeyi W.Hill

Pseudostem dark, to c. 10 m high, not or rarely suckering; sap red. Leaf lamina c. 200 cm long, rarely to 450 cm, c. 60 cm wide; petiole not seen. Inflorescence erect. Female flowers examined fragmentary; sepal oblong, 37–45 mm long, 10–11 mm wide; flowers ± sessile. Male flowers yellowish; syntepalum ± oblong, 38–50 mm long, 8–11 mm wide, 5-toothed, the teeth alternately long and short; free petal oblong to oblong-obovate or oblong-elliptic, 27–32 mm long, 7.5–10 mm wide; pedicel 1–2 mm long. Berries crowded in 2 rows, ± sessile, obovoid-ellipsoidal, 3–5-angled, 4–6.5 cm long, 2.4–4 cm diam., ripening orange-red. Seeds 5–8 mm diam.

A tropical plant. It needs a warm humid location. It grows in Queensland in Australia. It grows between sea level and 160 m altitude.

Plants are grown from fresh seed.