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Common Names
Kela, Banana
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Taxonomy
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TAXON
Musa x paradisiaca L.
FAMILY
Musaceae Juss.
ALTERNATE FAMILY
nom. cons.
GENUS
Musa L.
SPECIES
paradisiaca L. Sp. pl. 2:1043. 1753
Plant Description
Tree-like herb, up to 9 m in height. Leaf sheaths tubular, forming a thick trunk. Leaf blade c. 1.5 m, oblong, usually ragged in appearance, splitting between the transverse parallel veins. Spike c. 1 m, drooping. Peduncle thick. Bracts opening in succession, 15-20 cm, ovate, concave, dark red, somewhat fleshy. Outer tepals 22-24 mm, 5-toothed, fleshy, tinged pink. Inner tepals 19-20 mm, ovate, acute, concave. Stamens 5. Fruit oblong, fleshy. (In the wild form 5-7 cm with seed; seedless and longer in the cultivated varieties.)
