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

145. Musa ornata Roxb. var. ornata

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