Musa x paradisiaca L.

Musa paradisiaca Linnrvar. tombak Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 246 (var.
nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 171; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 307=MUSA SAPIENTUM
Linn. var. TOMBAK Teodoro in Philip. Journ. Sei. 10 (1915) Bot.
40f? t. 10, f. IS.
This form, very imperfectly described by Blanco, is one of
the cultivated varieties of the common banana. The identificä-
tion has been made chiefly from the Tagalog name, tinumbagd.
Muafepative specimen from cultivated plants, Antipolo, Rizal
Province, Luzon, June, 1915, there known as Unumbaga or
durogo (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 053).
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