CHR 609665 C – Musa L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 609665 C
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
21 May 2010
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Musa
Determiner:
Identification date:
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:
Country:
Unknown
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Viti Levu, Colo-i-Suva, Raintree Lodge
Verbatim locality:
Viti Levu, Colo-i-Suva, Raintree Lodge
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 108/07
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
11 Jul 2007
Start date:
2007-07-11
Country:
Fiji
Habitat:
Cultivated on lakeside.
Notes:
Soboliferous / musoid plant with copious viscid sap; trunk c. 1 m high. Leaf lamina c. 1 m or more x 40-45 cm, curving downwards; midrib concave above, convex & obtuse below; main veins prominent. Inflor. erect. Male flowers in a rosy-pink "cone" with the largest lower bracts c. 8 x 4.5 cm, broad oblong-ovate, thick later recurving. Perianth c. 4 cm long, pale orange-yellow, slightly curved. Anthers exserted, cream. Fruit beneath "male" cone ± erect, 5-6.5 cm long x c. 3 cm across widest face, obtusely 3-angled, deep pink, pubescent. Flesh white.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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