Musa ornata Roxb. var. ornata

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 86

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scientific name	Musa ornata Roxb. var. ornata
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Treatment

145. Musa ornata Roxb. var. ornata View in CoL

in Carey, Flora Indica 2: 488 (1824). — Type: illustration no. 1716 of Icones Roxburghianae, (neo-, K!, here designated).

REMARKS

The main herbarium and types of William Roxburgh are at K, and considerable sets at BM, BR, E, G and LIV ( Stafleu & Cowan 1983). However, the type collection has not been found. The name appeared for the first time without diagnosis in Hortus Bengalensis ( Roxburgh 1814: 19). In the diagnosis ( Carey 1824) no collection is mentioned. Most likely it was described from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. According to Cheesman (1931) there is a plate of M. ornata at Kew belonging to Icones Roxburghianae, representing the original description. That drawing was not included in the Indian flora ( Carey 1832), as well as not in the later re-prints due to partially bad quality. That illustration at K was selected as a neotype, as it was probably drawn after the description was published. It bears a label “Icones Roxburghianae 1716”.

Musa ornata View in CoL is not nom. illeg. It was Wallich, who added the footnote that this name is probably M. rosacea Jacq. ( Carey 1824) View in CoL .

References

CAREY W. (ed.) 1824. - Flora Indica, or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the Late William Roxburgh, to Which are Added Descriptions of Plants More Recently Discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. 2. Mission Press, Calcutta, 493 p.

CAREY W. (ed.) 1832. - Flora Indica, or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the Late William Roxburgh. 2. 2 nd ed. W. Tacker and Co., Calcutta, 691 p.

CHEESMAN E. E. 1931. - A note on Musa ornata. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1931: 297 - 299.

ROXBURGH W. 1814. - Hortus Bengalensis. Mission Press, Calcutta, 104 p.

STAFLEU F. A. & COWAN R. S. 1983. - Taxonomic Literature 4. P-Sak, ed. 2. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1214 p.