CHR 498786 – Musa troglodytarum
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498786
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
20 January 1995
Database record updated:
21 October 2014
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Musa troglodytarum
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-06-26 (Verbatim: 26 Jun 1993)
Preferred name:
Musa troglodytarum
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Zingiberales
Family:
Musaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Takuvaine Valley, east side
Verbatim locality:
Takuvaine Valley, east side.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4100/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
26 Jun 1993
Start date:
1993-06-26
Land District:
Rarotonga
Country:
Cook Islands
Altitudes:
from 100m
Habitat:
Very modified Homalium forest.
Notes:
Tree like "herb" 7-8 m high. Sap bright purple. "Trunk" c. 20-30 cm thick in lower part. Leaves not collected, shining above. Female flowers with bracts 14-15 x c. 4 cm, oblong-acuminate green outside, whitish inside with pale brown veins. Style c. 5 cm long, thick and whitish. Female flowers with perianth white with purple veins, c. 5 cm long, narrowly-triangular. Mature fruits in erect bunches, 13-15 cm x 4-4.5 cm, 3-angled, orange; flesh bright yellow. Seeds absent. Locally common and representing an ancient planting site. Little vegetative spread, ± adventive.
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