CHR 498983 A – Musa L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498983 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
24 January 1995
Database record updated:
02 July 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Musa
Determiner:
T. Utanga
Identification date:
1993-07-23 (Verbatim: 23 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Musa L.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Zingiberales
Family:
Musaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Omoka
Verbatim locality:
Omoka.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4295/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
23 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-23
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Penrhyn
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Giant soboliferous herb with stout pseudostem c. 2.5 m high. Leaves in terminal crown, soon curving downwards and becoming tattered at margins, to 170 cm long, scarcely shining green above, somewhat glaucescent beneath. Inflorescence on a long pendulous rachis c. 130 m long. Large terminal "bulb" of male structures c. 20 cm long, bracts dark red, shining outside, with whitish bloom inside, 17-18 cm long. Male flowers in partial ring; perianth very irregular, upper segment c. 3 cm long, including terminal mucro, much inflated, pale pink, containing abundant sweet nectar. Lower segment c. 5 cm long, oblong, pinkish-purple above, terminal part yellow, recurving, 4-toothed. Female inflorescences towards base of stout rachis, each consisting of 10-12 bananas which curve upwards and in flattened "hands". Individual fruits 15-18 x 5-5.5 cm across the widest part, strongly and obusely 3-angled, medium green, eventually yellow; flesh very sweet (i.e. a typical banana). In the same small plot grew a banana identical except for the grey-glaucous skin when unripe. Both forms common on Penrhyn as well as Rarotonga, and local name is the same. The commonest banana on Penrhyn; local name "Taruia Sinasina", Rarotongan name "Taruia Maraina".
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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