Wild banana taxonomy and classification has been a subject of
debate and study since the time of Linnaeus. In fact, the first species
ever described by Linneaus was a banana (Musa cliffortiana), but
since it was before his landmark publication Species...
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Wild banana taxonomy and classification has been a subject of
debate and study since the time of Linnaeus. In fact, the first species
ever described by Linneaus was a banana (Musa cliffortiana), but
since it was before his landmark publication Species Plantarum,
it is oddly enough a pre-Linnean-Linnean taxon and is thus not
valid (Cheesman, 1948a). However, even the validly published and
accepted M. paradisiaca and M. sapientum later published by Linneaus
are long since rejected due to them being hybrids of different wild
bananas, and also so intensely domesticated as to remove them
completely from the realm of Linnean binomials (they are now
considered belonging to no species) (Shepherd, 1999).
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