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Description of Musaceae

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Description: General botanical description and other technical information on Musaceae from Watson and Dallwitz's Families of Flowering Plants.
Angiosperm families - Musaceae Juss. The families of flowering plants herbs (with pseudo-stems constituted by massive leaf bases) (or at least, the the leaf bases) . Perennial; cormous, or rhizomatous. Pachycaul. Mesophytic. Leaves large to very large; alternate; spiral; flat; petiolate; sheathing. Leaf sheaths with free margins. Leaves simple (but becoming ragged and pseudo-pinnate by tearing between the lateral veins); epulvinate. Lamina entire; lanceolate, or oblong, or ovate (large); pinnately veined (the laterals parallel to one another); without cross-venules (i.e. between the laterals). Vernation convolute.
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