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This is a convenient group name to include the cultivated bananas and plantains and those wild species ofMusa (at present not certainly identified) from which they have originated.
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Cheesman, E.E., Dodds, K.S. Genetical and cytological studies ofMusa . Journ. of Genetics 43, 337–357 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982907
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