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Musa

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Musa

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Also known as banana genus

genus of plants

OverviewAI-generated

Musa is a genus of plants in the family Musaceae, classified within the order Zingiberales. The scientific name is Musa L., with Linnaeus, 1753, listed as the authority. It belongs to the class Liliopsida and phylum Tracheophyta. The genus is the source of banana, cooking banana, banana leaf, and banana flower, and its fruit type is a berry. The taxonomic type is Musa × paradisiaca.

The genus has been described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and Tietosanakirja. It is distinct from the common name "banana." Records indicate 9,068 PubMed entries, 36,172 GBIF occurrences, and 920 iDigBio records, with media from institutions in Mexico including ECOSUR, CIBYC-UAEM, UACH, CICY, and GH.

Synthesized by Vinony from 48 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, iNaturalist, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Madagascar Periwinkle

Musa

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderZingiberales
  5. FamilyMusaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan
Observations69,875
Observations recorded36,172

General: Musa is widespread throughout New Guinea, in forest Use: are commercial triploids derived from Musa acuminata Colla, but Fe’i

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
920
With media
527
Family
Musaceae
Collections
ECOSUR, CIBYC-UAEM, UACH, CICY, GH, SEMAHN
Recorded in
Mexico
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Research

9,068 papers

via PubMed

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Encyclopedic overview

Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains (also known as cooking bananas), and fiber (abacá), used to make paper and cloth. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants.

Description

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