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Musa x paradisiaca - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Nigeria; 6/2007 © Ralf Biechele

Musa x paradisiaca - Infructescences - Click to enlarge!

Infructescences; Nigeria; 6/2007 © Ralf Biechele

Musa x paradisiaca - Unripe fruit stand - Click to enlarge!

Unripe fruit stand; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 10/2003 © Jörn Germer

Musa x paradisiaca - Habit in dense stand of <a href=http://www.virboga.de/Panicum_maximum.htm><i> Panicum maximum</i></a> - Click to enlarge!

Habit in dense stand of Panicum maximum; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 10/2003 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 145
Date of entry: 16.11.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Banana, Plantain

German: Banane

Portuguese: Bananeira

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Zingiberales (26)

        Family: Musaceae (1)(family description)

          Genus: Musa (1)

            Epithet: x paradisiaca L. (pro sp.) (1)

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

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