TITLE	Taxonomic notes on wild bananas (Musa) from China
AUTHOR	Ai-Zhong Liu Laboratory for Plant Biogeography and Biodiversity, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, P. R. China De-Zhu Li* Laboratory for Plant Biogeography and Biodiversity, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, P. R. China Xi-Wen Li Laboratory for Plant Biogeography and Biodiversity, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, P. R. China
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ABSTRACT	Musa paracoccinea is published as a new species. Two imperfectly known species, M. nagensium and M. sanguinea are accepted. Musa lushanensis, M. luteola and M. dechangensis are reduced as synonyms of M. basjoo. It is pointed out here that M. wilsonii and M. rubra used in the Chinese literature such as Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. and Fl. Yunnan. are in fact misidentifications of M. itinerans and M. sanguinea, respectively.
KEYWORD	China; Musa paracoccinea; Revision; Taxonomy; Wild bananas (Musa);
ARTICLE INFO	Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 43 Number 1 January 2002, page 77-81, 5 pages
PUBLISHER	Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China