Musa x georgiana Rich.H.Wallace
date: label: Collection Date
content: 9 Oct 2008
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 78 - Southeastern U.S.A.
label: Collector
content: Richard H. Wallace
label: Microhabitat Description
content: Cultivated in evaluation plot.
notes: label: Notes
content: Herb, 1.6 meters tall (pseudostem height). Plant slender, suckering densely, close to parent plant 7-35 cm, with up to 13 suckers, position vertical. Mature pseudostem normal to 1.6 m high, green, underlying colour light green, slightly waxy and few small black pigmentations; sap watery. Petiole up to 34 cm long, petiole canal margins curved inward, winged and clasping the pseudostem. Leaf habit erect, with corrugated lamina; lamina to 100 x 45 cm, narrowly elliptic, truncate at the apex, upper surface green, lower surface medium green, appearance dull, with wax on surfaces; midrib dorsally pale green and ventrally purple. Leaf bases asymmetric with both sides rounded and slightly auriculate. Inflorescence at first erect then falling downward; peduncle to 60 cm long and 3 cm in diameter, green to rusty-brown and clothed with short hairs; sterile bracts two, deciduous at the opening of the first female flowers. Female bud, lanceolate, to 28 x 8 cm; bracts blue-purple on the external and crimson on the internal faces, heavily imbricate, waxy, lifting several bracts at a time, revolute before falling. Basal flowers female; ovary to 4 cm long, pale yellow tinted with red in both ends, with ovules arranged in four rows per locule; compound tepal to 3.5 cm long with two prominent thickened keels and hyaline margins, cream with red stripes, 5-toothed orange apex; free tepal to 2.5 cm long, translucent, boat shaped, with thickened keel and stigma cream. Male bud lanceolate, up to 18 x 6 cm, bracts blue-purple on the external and crimson on the internal faces, heavily imbricate, waxy, lifting several bracts at a time, revolute before falling. Male flowers on average 10 per bract in two rows; usually falling with the bract, compound tepal to 4.2 cm long with two prominent thickened keels and hyaline margins, cream with red stripes, 5-toothed orange apex; free tepal to 2.8 cm long, translucent, boat shaped, with thickened keel and orange tip; 5 underdeveloped sterile stamens 5. Fruit bunch compact, with 6-7 hands and 8-10 fruits per hand on average, in 2 rows, fingers perpendicular to the stalk; individual fruit to 6 cm long, 1.8 cm in diameter, pronounced ridged at maturity, with pedicel to 1 cm long, fruit apex pointed, without floral relicts, immature peel colur red, becoming brown (dried) at maturity. No seeds.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Richmond Hill, Richmond Heights Subdivision, 72 North Oak Road., Bryan, Georgia, United States, North America
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publisher: label: Published Name
content: Musa x georgiana Rich.H.Wallace
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 04696376
label: Other Numbers
content: Multi-sheeted specimen : 3 of 4
label: USNM Number
content: 3729298
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Wallace, R. H. 2009. Nordic J. Bot. 27 (3): 183.
label: Type Status
content: isotype fragment
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Zingiberales Musaceae