| Musa acuminata subsp. banksii (F.Muell.) N.W. Simmonds | Musa balbisiana Colla | Musa maclayi s.l. F.Muell. |
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Abbreviated name | M. acuminata | M. balbisiana | M. maclayi |
Section (previous section) | Musa (Eumusa) | Musa (Eumusa) | Callimusa (Australimusa) |
Chromosomes | 2n = 22 | 2n = 22 | 2n = 20 |
CWR group [28] | 1b (bananas and plantain) | 1b (bananas and plantain) | 1b (Fe’i bananas) |
Distribution [22] | New Guinea, N.E. Queensland, Samoa | Sikkim to Papuasia | Papuasia |
Habitat | Common in disturbed sites, rainforests and roadsides [29] | Forests, ravines and farm edges [30] | Alluvial gravels, lower montane habitats including forests and seral sites such as old gardens and landslips [29] |
Elevation | To 1300 m [31] | To 1200 m [30] | To 1000 m [29] |
Observed pollinator | Chiropterophily: Syconycteris australis, the Common blossom bat [32] Ornithophily: Nectarinia jugularis, the Yellow-bellied sunbird [32] Entomophily: Butterflies and small bees | Chiropterophily: fruit bats [33, 34] Entomophily: bumblebees | Ornithophily: Sunbirds (Nectariniidae) and Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) [35] |
Disperser | Not reported | Rodents [34] | Opossums, birds of paradise, hornbills, fruit bats |
Flower form | Pendent [35] | Pendent [36] | Erect [36] |
Notes on flower | Basal flowers female with variable development of staminodes, hermaphrodite flowers never observed [29] | Basal flowers female only [29] | |
Country of collection | Papua New Guinea | Viet Nam | Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) |
Ecoregion [38] | Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests | Northern Indochina subtropical forests | Solomon Islands rain forests |
Annual mean temperature (°C) [39] | 24.3 ± 2.1 | 21.4 ± 1.6 | 26.3 ± 1.3 |
Temperature annual range (°C) [39] | 10.1 ± 2.4 | 18.7 ± 1.2 | 8.4 ± 0.4 |
Annual precipitation (mm) [39] | 2561.0 ± 163.8 | 1613.8 ± 57.5 | 3534.2 ± 282.8 |
Precipitation seasonality (mm) [39] | 28.4 ± 12.3 | 86.1 ± 6.6 | 15.6 ± 6.3 |