Ensete
Sign in to saveEnsete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderZingiberales
- FamilyMusaceae
General: In New Guinea, Ensete is found in relatively dry, open
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Musaceae
- Collections
- US, MO, UF, UOMNH, MEL, NY
- Recorded in
- Myanmar, Guatemala, United States, Papua New Guinea
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Extinct species
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Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia.
== Taxonomy == The genus Ensete was first described by Paul Fedorowitsch Horaninow (or Horaninov, 1796–1865) in his Prodromus Monographiae Scitaminarum of 1862 in which he created a single species, Ensete edule. However, the genus did not receive general recognition until 1947 when it was revived by E. E. Cheesman in the first of a series of papers in the Kew Bulletin on the classification of the bananas, with a total of 25 species.
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