Musaceae
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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Musaceae
| image = Musatroglodytarum1web.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Musa troglodytarum
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Liliopsida
| subclassis = Zingiberidae
| ordo = Zingiberales
| familia = Musaceae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Musa (banana, plantain, abacá)
Musella
Ensete
}}
The Musaceae is a family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the bananas and plantains. Recent comparative studies of plastid and nuclear gene sequences coupled with the application of cladistics is providing a new, somewhat controversial, ordinal classification of flowering plants. However, the Zingiberales have to date been only slightly affected by such studies.
- Superorder: Zingiberanae
- Order: Zingiberales
- Families: Musaceae, Strelitziaceae, Lowiaceae, Heliconiaceae, Costaceae, Zingiberaceae, Cannaceae, Marantaceae
- Order: Zingiberales
The Family Musaceae contains three genera: Ensete, Musa, and Musella.
The genus, Musa, was first described by the pre-Linnaean botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius but was formally established in the first edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum in 1753—the publication that marks the boundary between pre-Linnean and post-Linnean literature. When he wrote Species Plantarum, Linnaeus was familiar with only one type of banana, which he had the opportunity of seeing first hand growing under glass in the garden of Mr. George Clifford near Haarlem in Holland. The "type" species of the genus, Musa paradisiaca L. was based on Musa Cliffortiana L. which, being published in 1736, is technically a "pre-Linnean" Linnean name. Musa paradisiaca is not actually a species at all, but a hybrid known today as Musa (AAB group) 'French' plantain or Musa x paradisiaca L. That Linnaeus chose wrongly to give a species name to a complex hybrid was the foundation for much confusion in the taxonomy of the genus that was not resolved until the 1940s and 1950s.
Until 1862 Musa was the only genus in the family. In 1862, Horaninow described Ensete but the genus did not receive widespread recognition until revived by Cheesman in 1947. The situation of Musella remains somewhat controversial. Musella lasiocarpa has been round the taxonomic block, being placed first in Musa and then in Ensete and back to Musa before eventually its monotypic status was recognised, at least by some, around 1978.
External links and references
- Musaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.da:Banan-familien
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