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Musa acuminata (edible banana)

Wikipedia Abstract

Musa acuminata is a species of wild banana native to Southeast Asia. It is the progenitor of modern edible bananas, along with Musa balbisiana. First cultivated by humans around 8000 years ago, it is one of the earliest examples of domesticated plants.
View Wikipedia Record: Musa acuminata

Infraspecies

Musa acuminata subsp. acuminata
Musa acuminata subsp. burmanica
Musa acuminata subsp. errans
Musa acuminata subsp. halabanensis
Musa acuminata subsp. malaccensis
Musa acuminata subsp. microcarpa
Musa acuminata subsp. siamea
Musa acuminata subsp. truncata
Musa acuminata var. chinensis
Musa acuminata var. sumatrana
Musa acuminata var. tomentosa

Attributes

Height [1]  9.8 feet (3 m)
Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve VI 921676 Ecuador  
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Reserva Karen Mogensen F. Nature Reserve 1866 Costa Rica  

Predators

Aspidiotus destructor (coconut scale)[3]
Caligo eurilochus (Owl butterfly)[4]
Caligo idomeneus (Owl butterfly)[4]
Caligo illioneus (Owl butterfly)[4]
Caligo memnon (Giant owl butterfly)[4]
Caligo oileus[4]
Caligo placidianus (Owl butterfly)[4]
Caligo prometheus (Owl butterfly)[4]
Cania bilinea[4]
Cheromettia lohor[4]
Cheromettia sumatrensis[4]
Diaspis boisduvalii (boisduval scale)[3]
Dynastor darius (The leaf butterfly)[4]
Dysmicoccus grassii[3]
Erionota thrax (banana skipper)[4]
Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale)[3]
Hemiberlesia rapax (greedy scale)[3]
Kophene cuprea[4]
Levuana iridescens[4]
Opogona sacchari (Banana Moth)[4]
Opsiphanes bogotanus[4]
Opsiphanes cassiae[4]
Opsiphanes tamarindi (Butterfly)[4]
Phauda flammans[4]
Platyrrhinus lineatus (white-lined broad-nosed bat)[5]
Presbytis comata (grizzled leaf monkey)[6]
Thosea unifascia[4]
Trachycentra calamias[4]
Trachypithecus auratus (Javan langur)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Criconema mutabile <Unverified Name>[7]
Filenchus exiguus <Unverified Name>[7]
Helicotylenchus californicus <Unverified Name>[7]
Helicotylenchus dihystera <Unverified Name>[7]
Helicotylenchus multicinctus[7]
Ottolenchus discrepans <Unverified Name>[7]

Distribution

Tanzania (Pemba), Trop. & Subtrop. Asia;

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Govaerts R., 21-Jun-2005, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 5Vampyrops lineatus, Michael R. Willig and Robert R. Hollander, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 275, pp. 1-4 (1987) ♦ 6The Diversity of Plants as Feed Resources for the Java Gibbon (Hylobates moloch), Grizzled Langur (Presbytis cornata), and Silver Langur (Trachypithecus auratus) In Gunung Halimun National Park, Wartika Rosa Farida and Harun, Jurnal Primatologi Indonesia, Vol. 3, No. 2, Desember 2000, p.:55-61 ♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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