Musa coccinea

Musa coccinea
Scarlet Banana
Illustration of Musa coccinea inflorescence.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Musaceae
Genus: Musa
Species: M. coccinea
Binomial name
Musa coccinea
Andrews[1]
Synonyms

Musa uranoscopos Lour.
Quesnelia lamarckii Baker

List sources : [2][3][4]

Musa coccinea, commonly known as scarlet banana[3] or red-flowering banana,[5] is a bat-pollinated[6] plant in the banana and plantain family native to tropical China (in Guangdong, Guangxi, and southeastern Yunnan) and Vietnam.[3] Elsewhere M. coccinea is cultivated for its ornamental value.[3] M. coccinea is a known host in the New World of the red palm mite (Raoiella indica).[5]

References

  1. ^  Musa coccinea was originally described and published in Botanist's Repository, for new, and rare plants. 1: , pl. 47. 1799. "Name - !Musa coccinea Andrews". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/21500433. Retrieved June 4, 2011. "Type-Protologue: Locality: Thomas Evans received it about the year 1792, from China. Our figure was taken, in part, from a plant which flowered at James Vere’s, last Decemer [sic], and partly from one in blossom about the same time, at the Hon. Lady Archer’s" 
  2. ^  "Name - !Musa coccinea Andrews synonyms". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/21500433?tab=synonyms. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c d  GRIN (November 18, 2009). "Musa coccinea information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24712. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Entry for Musa coccinea Andrews". The Plant List. version 1.. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Missouri Botanical Garden, et al. Published on the Internet. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-254796. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 
  5. ^ a b Cal Welbourn (May 1, 2009). "Pest Alert for Red palm mite Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)". Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry. http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/r.indica.html. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 
  6. ^ Theodore H. Fleming, Cullen Geiselman, and W. John Kress (November 2009). "The evolution of bat pollination: a phylogenetic perspective". Annals of Botany (Oxford University Press) 104 (6): 1017–1043. doi:10.1093/aob/mcp197. PMC 2766192. PMID 19789175. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2766192. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 

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