Musa maclayi is a species of seeded banana native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa). It is regarded as one of the progenitors of the Fe'i banana cultivars.
The plant has red sap and an upright flowering and fruiting stem. The fruits are rounded and arranged closely together in bunches – partly joined along their edges in some varieties.
The species was named after the explorer and naturalist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, who first described it:
"Besides the cultivated varieties, which have been obtained by exchange between the villages, there is to be found in the forest a wild Banana (Musa Maclayi F. v. M. [Ferdinand von Mueller]), compared to the cultivated varieties, with a tall stem (nearly twice as tall), with narrow stiff leaves and small (not edible) fruits full of seeds."
— N. Miklouho-Maclay6Subspecies
Two subspecies78 and two varieties9 are known:
- Musa maclayi subsp. ailuluai Argent
- Musa maclayi subsp. maclayi (autonym)
- Musa maclayi var. erecta (Simmonds) Argent
- Musa maclayi var. namatani Argent
Notes and references
Wikispecies has information related to Musa maclayi.References
Plummer, J. & Kallow, S. (2020). "Musa maclayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T158541341A158544348. Retrieved 2022-02-27. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/158541341/158544348 ↩
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. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240415 ↩
Ploetz, R.C.; Kepler, A.K.; Daniells, J. & Nelson, S.C. (2007). "Banana and Plantain: An Overview with Emphasis on Pacific Island Cultivars". In Elevitch, C.R (ed.). Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry (PDF). Hōlualoa, Hawai'i: Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR). Retrieved 2013-01-10. http://agroforestry.net/tti/Banana-plantain-overview.pdf ↩
Sharrock, S. (2001). "Diversity in the genus Musa: focus on Australimusa". In INIBAP (ed.). Networking Banana and Plantain: INIBAP Annual Report 2000 (PDF). Montpellier, France: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain. pp. 14–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-01-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20130513080423/http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversity/publications/pdfs/664_Networking_Banana_and_Plantain.pdf ↩
Ploetz, R.C.; Kepler, A.K.; Daniells, J. & Nelson, S.C. (2007). "Banana and Plantain: An Overview with Emphasis on Pacific Island Cultivars". In Elevitch, C.R (ed.). Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry (PDF). Hōlualoa, Hawai'i: Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR). Retrieved 2013-01-10. http://agroforestry.net/tti/Banana-plantain-overview.pdf ↩
"List of plants in use by the natives of the Maclay-Coast, New Guinea", in The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales Vol. X 1885, p. 348 https://archive.org/stream/proceedingslinn37walegoog#page/n360/mode/1up ↩
Sharrock, S. (2001). "Diversity in the genus Musa: focus on Australimusa". In INIBAP (ed.). Networking Banana and Plantain: INIBAP Annual Report 2000 (PDF). Montpellier, France: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain. pp. 14–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-01-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20130513080423/http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversity/publications/pdfs/664_Networking_Banana_and_Plantain.pdf ↩
"Musa maclayi". Altlas of Living Australia. Retrieved January 24, 2013.[dead link] http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Musa+maclayi#classification ↩
"Musa maclayi". Altlas of Living Australia. Retrieved January 24, 2013.[dead link] http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Musa+maclayi#classification ↩