Species profile—Musa jackeyi
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Musaceae → Musa jackeyi
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Musaceae
- Scientific name
- Musa jackeyi W.Hill
- WildNet taxon ID
- 13832
- Alternate name(s)
- erect banana
wild banana - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Description
- Musa jackeyi is a type of banana tree growing to 10m in height. It has a tall, dark trunk with red sap. It rarely suckers. The leaves are about 200cm long, rarely reaching 450cm, and are 60cm wide. The leaf stalk is not seen.
Inflorescences are erect. Flowers arise from the top of the trunk, with the male flowers at the base and the female flowers at the upper end. The fruit are crowded in 2 rows and are orange-red when ripe. The fruits are short, horizontal, egg-shaped, 3-5-cornered, 4-6.5cm long, 2.4-4cm in diameter and have numerous seeds buried in the pulp.
This species is distinguishable from all other species of Musa by the red sap and erect inflorescence. (Ross 1987) - Map
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- Distribution
- Musa jackeyi is found near Innisfail and Babinda in north-east Queensland. Old records are from the Daintree River area. (Ross 1987; Herbrecs 2008)
- Distributional limits
- -16.2484705, 145.4177727
-17.5234633, 145.9761074 - Range derivation
- Range derived from extent of the taxon's verified records
- Habitat
- Musa jackeyi grows in rich alluvial soil along rivers, in an area with a tropical climate. (Ross 1987)
- Notes
- Contributors: Ailsa Holland, Mellisa Mayhew 19/06/2009
- References
- Herbrecs (2008). Musa jackeyi, in BriMapper version 2.12. Queensland Herbarium. Accessed 09/10/2008.
Ross, E.M. in George, A.S. (Ed) (1987). Flora of Australia 45: 18-19. - Profile author
- Ailsa Holland (19/06/2009)
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=13832.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
