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Description: Images and description of Musaceae from Flowering Plant Families website of Dr Gerry Carr, University of Hawai'i.
Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany The Musaceae are large, often treelike perennial herbs comprising 2 genera and about 45 species. The leaves are alternate and very large, with the proximal concentric, appressed sheathing portions comprising a pseudotrunk from which the individual petioles and blades diverge. The blades are simple with a prominent midrib and numerous penni-parallel lateral veins. Eventually, an inflorescence axis arising from the corm grows upward through the channel formed by the overlapping leaf bases and produces a terminal series of large overlapping bracts, each of which subtends and hides a cymose cluster of flowers. As each cyme reaches anthesis, the subtending bract reflexes to expose the flowers and eventually abscises from the inflorescence axis. The flowers are zygomorphic and functionally unisexual, the proximal ones being female and the distal ones male. The perianth comprises 2 series of 6 petaloid tepals, 5 of which are connate into a 5-lobed tube leaving one inner segment free. The androecium usually consists of 5 fertile stamens and a staminode that is opposite the free tepal. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 3 carpels, a single style, and an inferior ovary with 3 locules, each containing numerous axile ovules. The fruit is a berry, usually with a leathery, separable exocarp.
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