Musaceae

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Musaceae
Temporal range: Santonian - recent[1]
Musa × paradisiaca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Musaceae
Juss.[2]
Type genus
Musa
Genera
  Musaceae distribution

Musaceae is a

ornamental plants
.

Taxonomy

The family has been practically universally recognized by taxonomists, although with differing circumscriptions. Older circumscriptions of the family commonly included the genera now included in

Heliconiaceae and Strelitziaceae
.

The

monocots
.

The oldest fossil evidence of the family is thought to possibly be the

Clarno Formation of Oregon, although its actual placement within the family is uncertain.[7][1]

Cladogram:
Phylogeny of Zingiberales[8]
Zingiberales
Zingiberineae
Zingiberariae
Cannariae

Cannaceae

Marantaceae

Strelitziineae

Lowiaceae

Strelitziaceae

Heliconiaceae

Musaceae

Genera

As currently circumscribed the family includes three

plantain. The genus Musa was formally established in the first edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum in 1753 — the publication that marks the start of the present formal botanical nomenclature. At the time he wrote Species Plantarum, Linnaeus had first hand knowledge of only one type of banana, which he personally had the opportunity of seeing growing under glass in the garden of Mr. George Clifford near Haarlem
in the Netherlands.

Before 1753, the genus had already been described by the pre-Linnaean

Latundan cultivar (M. × paradisiaca AAB Group 'Silk'), while his Musa paradisiaca are now known to be hybrids belonging generally to the AAB and ABB banana cultivar groups.[9][10] Hybridization and polyploidy was the cause of much confusion in the taxonomy of the genus Musa that was not resolved until the 1940s and 1950s.[11]

In this clearing up of the taxonomy, Ernest Entwistle Cheesman in 1947 revived the genus name Ensete which had been published in 1862, by Horaninow, but had not been accepted.

Musa section Musella Franch. was raised to the rank of genus by H.W. Li in 1978 for the Chinese species Musella lasiocarpa, which was originally described in Musa in 1889 and transferred to Ensete by Cheesman in 1948. The species combines characters like the swollen stems of Ensete with the clonal habit of Musa. Acceptance of Musella has varied; as of February 2013, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families considers it a synonym of Ensete,[12] other sources dispute this view.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Zingiberales". www.mobot.org. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  2. hdl:10654/18083
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  3. ^
    doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1
    .
  4. PMID 30715125
    .
  5. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boy070
    .
  6. S2CID 231875495
    .
  7. JSTOR 2445709
    .
  8. ^ Sass et al 2016.
  9. ^ "Musa sapientum". users.globalnet.co.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "Musa paradisiaca". users.globalnet.co.uk.
  11. ^ Michel H. Porcher; Prof. Snow Barlow (2002-07-19). "Sorting Musa names". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  12. ^ "Musella", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2013-02-07

Bibliography

External links
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