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Musa banksii

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Family Musaceae

Taxonomy: Musa banksii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Musa acuminata subsp. banksii N.W.Simmonds (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Musa banksii F.Muell. var. banksii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Musa banksii var. muelleriana Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 66 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 110 mm (80-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19.5 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 19 mm (15-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); palmoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231523Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221012L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_198134B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.