Musa fehi Bertero

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 76

86. Musa fehi Bertero

in Vieillard, Annales des Sciences naturelles, sér. 4, 16:

45 (1862).

REMARKS

The type was recorded from New Caledonia. Herbarium and types of Carlo Giuseppe Bertero are at FI ( Stafleu & Cowan 1976), but no type specimen exists, as stated already by MacDaniels (1947: 15). MacDaniels (1947: 20) considers that M. fehi is synonymous to M. troglodytarum L. According to Cheesman (1950a: 446) this taxon is a cultivated banana. It seems possible that there are sexually inbreeding populations as well as parthenogenesis cultivars of M. fehi . The interpretation of true M. fehi still awaits clarification.