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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
Musa acuminata Colla	Accepted		WCSP
Musa × alinsanaya R.V.Valmayor	Accepted		WCSP
Musa aurantiaca G.Mann ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Musa azizii Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa bakeri Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa balbisiana Colla	Accepted		WCSP
Musa banksii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa barioensis Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa basjoo Siebold & Zucc. ex Iinuma	Accepted		WCSP
Musa bauensis Häkkinen & Meekiong	Accepted		WCSP
Musa beccarii N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP
Musa boman Argent	Accepted		WCSP
Musa borneensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa bukensis Argent	Accepted		WCSP
Musa campestris Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa celebica Warb. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa cheesmanii N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP
Musa coccinea Andrews	Accepted		WCSP
Musa exotica R.V.Valmayor	Accepted		WCSP
Musa fitzalanii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa formosana (Warb.) Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Musa gracilis Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Musa griersonii Noltie	Accepted		WCSP
Musa hirta Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa ingens N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP
Musa insularimontana Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Musa itinerans Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP
Musa jackeyi W.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Musa johnsii Argent	Accepted		WCSP
Musa kattuvazhana K.C.Jacob	Accepted		WCSP
Musa lanceolata Warb. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa laterita Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP
Musa lawitiensis Nasution & Supard.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa lokok Geri & Ng	Accepted		WCSP
Musa lolodensis Cheesman	Accepted		WCSP
Musa lutea R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa maclayi F.Muell. ex Mikl.-Maclay	Accepted		WCSP
Musa mannii H.Wendl. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent	Accepted		WCSP
Musa muluensis M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Musa nagensium Prain	Accepted		WCSP
Musa ochracea K.Sheph.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa ornata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa paracoccinea A.Z.Liu & D.Z.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Musa × paradisiaca L.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa peekelii Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa rosea Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Musa rubinea Häkkinen & C.H.Teo	Accepted		WCSP
Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz	Accepted		WCSP
Musa sakaiana Meekiong, Ipor & Tawan	Accepted		WCSP
Musa salaccensis Zoll. ex Backer	Accepted		WCSP
Musa sanguinea Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa schizocarpa N.W.Simmonds	Accepted		WCSP
Musa siamensis Häkkinen & Rich.H.Wallace	Accepted		WCSP
Musa sikkimensis Kurz	Accepted		WCSP
Musa splendida A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa textilis Née	Accepted		WCSP
Musa thomsonii (King ex Baker) A.M.Cowan & Cowan	Accepted		WCSP
Musa tonkinensis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa troglodytarum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa tuberculata M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Musa velutina H.Wendl. & Drude	Accepted		WCSP
Musa violascens Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Musa viridis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa voonii Häkkinen	Accepted		WCSP
Musa yunnanensis Häkkinen & H.Wang	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 203 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Musa. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 181 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 203 species names for the genus Musa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	32.5%
◕	Synonym	125	61.6%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	9	4.4%

All names

The status of the 384 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Musa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	83	21.6%
◕	Synonym	289	75.3%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	9	2.3%

Of these names,

• 24 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 203 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Musa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	66	122	0	0	188	92.6%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	1	3	9	13	6.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Musa, are as follows: