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|accepted_name=Musaceae
|accepted_authority=A. L. Jussieu
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|common_names=Banana Family
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|hierarchy=Musaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Musaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=page 302
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Treelike </b>herbs, perennial, from corm [rhizome] [corm]. <b>True</b> aerial stems absent. <b>Leaves</b> basal, in several ranks, differentiated into basal sheath, petiole, and blade; sheaths overlapping, forming unbranched pseudostem, open, ligule absent; summit of petiole not differentiated; blade with lateral veins parallel, diverging from prominent midrib. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1 per aerial shoot, projecting from tip of pseudostem, pedunculate racemes of 12–20-flowered monochasial cymes (cincinni); bracts of main axis enclosing cincinni. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual (proximal flowers pistillate, distal flowers staminate), bilaterally symmetric; sepals and petals differentiated, sepals 3, petals 3, 3 sepals and 2 petals fused, remaining petal distinct; fertile stamens 5(–6), not petal-like; anthers 2-locular; occasionally 1 rudimentary staminode; ovary inferior, 3-carpellate, 3-locular, all locules fertile; placentation axile; ovules many per locule; style terminal, filiform; stigma 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> berries; sepals not persistent in fruit. <b>Seeds</b>: aril absent; endosperm copious; perisperm copious; embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 9, 10, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=tropical parts of Africa;Asia;Australia;and Oceania;often persisting around gardens and plantations throughout the wet tropics.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Genera 3, species ca. 40 (1 genus, 1 species, and 1 stable hybrid in the flora).</p>
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name=Musaceae
|author=Alan T. Whittemore
|authority=A. L. Jussieu
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|basionyms=
|family=Musaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=tropical parts of Africa;Asia;Australia;and Oceania;often persisting around gardens and plantations throughout the wet tropics.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
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