Musa

Accepted species 87 Documented here 7 Family Musaceae

Accepted species 87 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Musa velutina H.Wendl. & Drude 94 documented
Musa acuminata Colla 79 documented
Musa ornata Roxb. 50 documented
Musa banksii F.Muell. 16 documented
Musa balbisiana Colla 15 documented
Musa coccinea Andrews 13 documented
Musa itinerans Cheesman 5 documented
Musa campestris Becc. 2 below the evidence gate
Musa gracilis Holttum 2 below the evidence gate
Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent 2 below the evidence gate
Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz 2 below the evidence gate
Musa splendida A.Chev. 2 below the evidence gate
Musa basjoo Siebold & Zucc. ex Iinuma 1 below the evidence gate
Musa beccarii N.W.Simmonds 1 below the evidence gate
Musa borneensis Becc. 1 below the evidence gate
Musa nagensium Prain 1 below the evidence gate
Musa textilis Née 1 below the evidence gate
Musa troglodytarum L. 1 below the evidence gate
Musa violascens Ridl. 1 below the evidence gate
Musa × alinsanaya R.V.Valmayor 0 below the evidence gate
Musa × formobisiana H.L.Chiu, C.T.Shii & T.Y.A.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Musa × paradisiaca L. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa × parahaekkinenii Smisha & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Musa arfakiana Argent 0 below the evidence gate
Musa argentii Gogoi & Borah 0 below the evidence gate
Musa arunachalensis A.Joe, Sreejith & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Musa aurantiaca G.Mann ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Musa azizii Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa barioensis Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa bauensis Häkkinen & Meekiong 0 below the evidence gate
Musa boman Argent 0 below the evidence gate
Musa bukensis Argent 0 below the evidence gate
Musa celebica Warb. ex K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa cheesmanii N.W.Simmonds 0 below the evidence gate
Musa chunii Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa corneri Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Musa cylindrica A.Joe, Sreejith & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Musa exotica R.V.Valmayor 0 below the evidence gate
Musa fitzalanii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa flaviflora N.W.Simmonds 0 below the evidence gate
Musa griersonii Noltie 0 below the evidence gate
Musa haekkinenii N.S.Lý & Haev. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa hirta Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa ingens N.W.Simmonds 0 below the evidence gate
Musa insularimontana Hayata 0 below the evidence gate
Musa jackeyi W.Hill 0 below the evidence gate
Musa johnsii Argent 0 below the evidence gate
Musa juwiniana Meekiong, Ipor & Tawan 0 below the evidence gate
Musa kamengensis Gogoi & Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa kattuvazhana K.C.Jacob 0 below the evidence gate
Musa lanceolata Warb. ex K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa lawitiensis Nasution & Supard. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa lokok Geri & Ng 0 below the evidence gate
Musa lolodensis Cheesman 0 below the evidence gate
Musa lutea R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa maclayi F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa mannii H.Wendl. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Musa markkuana (M.Sabu, A.Joe & Sreejith) Hareesh, A.Joe & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Musa markkui Gogoi & Borah 0 below the evidence gate
Musa muluensis M.Hotta 0 below the evidence gate
Musa nagalandiana S.Dey & Gogoi 0 below the evidence gate
Musa nanensis Swangpol & Traiperm 0 below the evidence gate
Musa ochracea K.Sheph. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa paracoccinea A.Z.Liu & D.Z.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Musa peekelii Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa puspanjaliae Gogoi & Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa rosea Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Musa rubida Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Musa rubinea Häkkinen & C.H.Teo 0 below the evidence gate
Musa ruiliensis W.N.Chen, Häkkinen & X.J.Ge 0 below the evidence gate
Musa sabuana K.Prasad, A.Joe, Bheem. & B.R.P.Rao 0 below the evidence gate
Musa sakaiana Meekiong, Ipor & Tawan 0 below the evidence gate
Musa salaccensis Zoll. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa sanguinea Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Musa schizocarpa N.W.Simmonds 0 below the evidence gate
Musa serpentina Swangpol & Somana 0 below the evidence gate
Musa shankarii Subba Rao & Kumari 0 below the evidence gate
Musa siamensis Häkkinen & Rich.H.Wallace 0 below the evidence gate
Musa sikkimensis Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Musa thomsonii King ex A.M.Cowan & Cowan 0 below the evidence gate
Musa tonkinensis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa tuberculata M.Hotta 0 below the evidence gate
Musa viridis R.V.Valmayor, L.D.Danh & Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa voonii Häkkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa yamiensis C.L.Yeh & J.H.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Musa yunnanensis Häkkinen & H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Musa zaifui Häkkinen & H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.