Musa balbisiana Colla.,has not hitherto been recorded as suchin Indian litrature on Musa.The species, however,has been found growing in certain tracts of this country for ages now and has been ranked as Musa sapientum (Roxburgh,1824:Kurz.,1866),that mythical species,which is 'the most confounded and confusing combination in the whole literature of Musa'(Cheesman,1948a).
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