page_title: Ensete
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Ensete / Species
caption_attribution_description: Ensete superbum in the National Botanical Garden in Washington D.C.
context_page_description: Ensete is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset, an economically important foodcrop in Ethiopia.
context_section_description: It is possible to separate Ensete into its African and Asian species.
  Africa
  Ensete homblei (Bequart ex De Wild.) Cheesman - SE Democratic Republic of Congo to N Zambia
  Ensete livingstonianum (J.Kirk) Cheesman - Western tropical Africa to Malawi
  Ensete perrieri (Claverie) Cheesman - endemic to Madagascar
  Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman - enset or false banana, widely cultivated as a food plant in Ethiopia
  Asia
  Ensete glaucum (Roxb.) Cheesman - widespread in Asia from India to Papua New Guinea
  Ensete lasiocarpum (Franch.) Cheesman - China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar (Burma)
  Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman - Western Ghats of India
  Ensete wilsonii (Tutcher) Cheesman - Yunnan, China, but doubtfully distinct from E. glaucum
caption: Ensete superbum at the United States Botanic Garden.
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