台湾芭蕉 tai wan ba jiao

Musa ( paradisiaca Linnaeus var. formosana Warburg ex Schumann in Engler, Pflanzenr. 1(IV. 45): 21. 1900.

Pseudostems ca. 6 m. Petiole ca. 35 cm; leaf blade ca. 1.2 m × 45 cm. Inflorescence pendulous; rachis 40--50 m × 3--4 cm, glabrous. Bracts bronze yellow, ovate, 15--20 × 6--10 cm, concave. Flowers ca. 8 cm, with pale yellow tepals. Compound tepal 5-lobed at apex; free tepal oblong, ca. 1/2 as long as compound tepal, strongly vaulted, apex cuspidate. Berries bronze, fusiform, 8--10 cm. 2 n = 20*.

* Slopes in mountains; near sea level to 1000 m. Taiwan.