India ( Hooker 1872 ), 2008

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 89

171. Musa sanguinea Hook. f.

Botanical Magazine 98: t. 5975 (1872). — Type: Hooker

(1872), Botanical Magazine 98: t. 5975 (syntype).

REMARKS

Musa sanguinea Hook. f. was discovered in 1869 by Mann, in the Mahuni forests on the banks of the Booree Deling River in Upper Assam, India ( Hooker 1872) . Hooker (1872) diagnosed it from a flowering plant at Kew Garden in January 1872 and provided an illustration (lectotype). After the illustration was drawn, parts of inflorescence and fruits were preserved in a liquid (K 32103.000!). It includes a label which indicates that the seeds were collected in Assam. There is a specimen at K!, obviously taken from the same plant the description was based on, viz. “Hort. Kew 3.XII.1884 ”. The label cites “Bot. Mag. 98: t. 5975”. That sheet was erroneously designated as a lectotype by Liu et al. (2002: 79). However, the illustration represents original material.