Family · Monocots
Musaceae
Bananas, plantains
Bananas: giant herbs with pseudostems of rolled leaf sheaths bearing edible fruit.
- Accepted species
- 101accepted names · Kew WCVP
- Genera
- 3accepted genera · Kew WCVP
- Origin
- ≈20 MaNeogene · crown age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree
- Centre of diversity
- Asia-Tropicalmost native species · WGSRPD
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Plants you might know
- Banana
- Plantain
- Ensete
- Musella
Genera
Musa92 spp.
Ensete8 spp.
Musella1 spp.
Where it grows
- Asia-Tropical84
- Asia-Temperate24
- Africa4
- Australasia2
- Pacific2
Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.