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NOTES ON WILD SPECIES OF MUSA FROM SUMATRA
Author(s) -
MEIJER W.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
acta botanica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0044-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1961.tb00051.x
Subject(s) - geography , citation , combinatorics , library science , history , mathematics , computer science
The study of the wild bananas occurring in Malaysia got a new impulse by the recent breeding experiments and by the taxonomic and genetical studies that were carried out by Cheesman (1947, 1948, 1950) and Simmonds (1956, 1959) at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. I wish to thank Mr. N. W. Simmonds for his stimulating interest in my studies of the bananas occurring in West Sumatra and for his comments on my new species. My stay in Sumatra was unfortunately too short to allow an extensive exploration of its banana flora. Besides the species described below I collected on the East Coast near Pcmatang Siantar a form of Musa acuminata Colla. (Meijer 7264), which proved to agree with the socalled Cameron form of Musa acuminata ( = M. truncata Ridl.) occurring in Malaya (Simmonds 1955).