page_title: Musa (genus)
section_title: Section Callimusa (incorporating Australimusa)
hierarchical_section_title: Musa (genus) / Systematics and taxonomy / Species / Section Callimusa (incorporating Australimusa)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Meise (Belgique), Jardin botanique national de Belgique - Musa (sp.) - Linnaeus 1753 - Bananier. English: Meise (Belgium), National Botanic Garden of Belgium - Plant Palace - Musa (sp.) - Linnaeus 1753 - Musa (genus) - Banana tree. Nederlands: Meise (België), Nationale plantentuin van België - Plantenpaleis – Musa (sp.) - Banaan (geslacht) - Banaanboom. Walon: Meise (Bèljike), Djârdin National di Bèljike - Musa (sp.) - Bananî.
context_page_description: Musa is one of two or three genera in the family Musaceae; it includes bananas and plantains. Around 70 species of Musa are known, with a broad variety of uses.
  Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbs.
  Musa species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the giant leopard moth and other Hypercompe species, including H. albescens, H. eridanus, and H. icasia.
context_section_description: [A] and [C] indicate known placement in the former sections Australimusa and Callimusa, respectively.
  M. × alinsanaya R.V.Valmayor [A]
  M. azizii Häkkinen
  M. barioensis Häkkinen
  M. bauensis Häkkinen & Meekiong [C]
  M. beccarii N.W.Simmonds [A]
  M. boman Argent [A]
  M. borneensis Becc. [C]
  M. bukensis Argent [A]
  M. campestris Becc. [C]
  M. coccinea Andrews [C] – scarlet banana
  M. exotica R.V.Valmayor [C]
  M. fitzalanii F.Muell. [A] – extinct
  M. gracilis Holttum [C]
  M. hirta Becc. [A]
  M. insularimontana Hayata [A]
  M. jackeyi W.Hill [A]
  M. johnsii Argent [A]
  M. lawitiensis Nasution & Supard. [C]
  M. lokok Geri & Ng
  M. lolodensis Cheesman [A]
  M. maclayi F.Muell. ex Mikl.-Maclay [A]
  M. monticola M.Hotta ex Argent [A]
  M. muluensis M.Hotta [A]
  M. paracoccinea A.Z.Liu & D.Z.Li [C]
  M. peekelii Lauterb. [A]
  M. salaccensis Zoll. ex Backer [A]
  M. textilis Née [A] – Abacá
  M. × troglodytarum L. [A] – the cultivated Fe'i bananas
  M. tuberculata M.Hotta [A]
  M. violascens Ridl. [C]
  M. viridis R.V.Valmayor et al.
  M. voonii Häkkinen
caption: Fruit stalk of Musa sp.
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