Musa paracoccinea is a tropical and subtropical Asian species of plant in the banana family native to both China (southeastern Yunnan province) and Indochina (northern Vietnam).[1] It is placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa), members of which have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20.[2]
Musa paracoccinea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Zingiberales |
Family: | Musaceae |
Genus: | Musa |
Section: | Musa sect. Callimusa |
Species: | M. paracoccinea
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Binomial name | |
Musa paracoccinea |
References
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- ^ a b Original description of this plant was first published in A.-Z. Liu et al. Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica 43:77. 2002. "Musa paracoccinea". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
- ^ Wong, C.; Kiew, R.; Argent, G.; Set, O.; Lee, S.K. & Gan, Y.Y. (2002), "Assessment of the Validity of the Sections in Musa (Musaceae) using ALFP", Annals of Botany, 90 (2): 231–238, doi:10.1093/aob/mcf170, PMC 4240415, PMID 12197520