Musa x paradisiaca L.

MUSA PARADISIACA Lmni vari MÁXIMA Blanco FI. Filip* (1837) 245
(var. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 171; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 308.
This is very poorly characterized by Blanco as one of the bana-¿,
nas with very large fruits of poor flavor. The identification has
been made largely from the native name. One of the cultivated
forms of the common banana.
Illustrative specimen from Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Luzon,
Jíine, J915, there known as batavia or matavia {Merrill: Spe
cies Blancoanae N'éí 920).
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