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The genus Musa is in the family Musaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Musa

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Musa acuminata Colla	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	8
Musa × alinsanaya R.V.Valmayor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa arfakiana Argent	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa aurantiaca G.Mann ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa azizii Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa balbisiana Colla	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	4
Musa banksii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa barioensis Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa basjoo Siebold & Zucc. ex Iinuma	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Musa bauensis Häkkinen & Meekiong	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa beccarii N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa boman Argent	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa borneensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Musa bukensis Argent	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa campestris Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa celebica Warb. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa cheesmanii N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa chunii Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa coccinea Andrews	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa cultivars Attikol	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Musa exotica R.V.Valmayor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa fitzalanii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa × georgiana Rich.H.Wallace	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa gracilis Holttum	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa griersonii Noltie	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa hirta Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa ingens N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa insularimontana Hayata	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa itinerans Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Musa jackeyi W.Hill	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa johnsii Argent	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa juwiniana Meekiong, Ipor & Tawan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa kattuvazhana K.C.Jacob	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa × kewensis Baker	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa lanceolata Warb. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa laterita Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa lawitiensis Nasution & Supard.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Musa lokok Geri & Ng	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa lolodensis Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa lutea R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa maclayi F.Muell. ex Mikl.-Maclay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Musa mannii H.Wendl. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa muluensis M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa nagensium Prain	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa nana Lour.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa ochracea K.Sheph.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa ornata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa paracoccinea A.Z.Liu & D.Z.Li	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa × paradisiaca L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa peekelii Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Musa rosea Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa rubinea Häkkinen & C.H.Teo	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa sakaiana Meekiong, Ipor & Tawan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa salaccensis Zoll. ex Backer	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa sanguinea Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa schizocarpa N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa seminifera Lour.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa shankarii Subba Rao & Kumari	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa siamensis Häkkinen & Rich.H.Wallace	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa sikkimensis Kurz	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa splendida A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa textilis Née	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa thomsonii (King ex Baker) A.M.Cowan & Cowan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa tonkinensis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa troglodytarum L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa tuberculata M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa velutina H.Wendl. & Drude	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa violascens Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa viridis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa voonii Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa yamiensis C.L.Yeh & J.H.Chen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa yunnanensis Häkkinen & H.Wang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Musa zaifui Häkkinen & H.Wang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 173 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Musa. Of these 70 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 194 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Musa. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 173 species names for the genus Musa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	40.5%
◕	Synonym	98	56.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	2.9%

All names

The status of the 367 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Musa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	24.5%
◕	Synonym	272	74.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	1.4%

Of the species names,

• 22 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 173 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Musa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	95	0	0	165	95.4%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	5	6	3.5%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Musa is as follows: