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 Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz 

Synonym	:	Musa laterita Cheesman
Family	:	Musaceae
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Throughout the year
Distribution	:	India (Manipur and Mizoram), Myanmar and Thailand.
Uses	:	Ornamental
Key botanical characters:   Rhizomatous stoloniferous, suckering, clump-forming herbs. Pseudostem 30–250 cm tall cylindrical, pale green with black or dark reddish-brown patches. Leaves arranged terminally, erect; petiole 20–40 cm long, margin scarious, blackish-brown. Inflorescence erect, peduncle densely puberulent; female and male bud lanceolate, imbricate at apex, male bud top-shaped in advanced stage; bracts and flowers inserted separately on the axis; bracts reflexed, revolute before falling, non-revolute in female bract, red to brick red on both surfaces, faintly glaucous adaxially; flowers arranged in two rows. Infructescence compact with 4–6; fingers pedicellate, straight, prominently ridged, slightly pointed at apex without floral relicts, glabrous, pale green to green, yellow when ripen.