Strelitzia caudata

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Zingiberales

Familia: Strelitziaceae
Genus: Strelitzia
Species: Strelitzia caudata
Name

Strelitzia caudata R.A.Dyer (1946)

References

African Plants Database (version 3.4.0). 07. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Accessed: Mar.
Dyer, R.A. 1946. Fl. Pl. Africa 25:

Vernacular names
English: mountain strelitzia, wild banana

Strelitzia caudata, commonly known as the mountain strelitzia or wild banana, is a species of banana-like Strelitzia from Africa from the Chimanimani Mountains of Zimbabwe south to Mozambique, the Northern Provinces of South Africa and Eswatini (Swaziland).[1] It was first described in 1946 by Robert Allen Dyer in Flowering Plants of Africa , Volume 25, Plate 997. The specific epithet caudata means chopped, this refers to an appendage of a sepal, which occurs only in this species.[2][3] It is one of three large banana-like Strelitzia species, all of which are native to southern Africa,[4] the other two being S. alba and S. nicolai.
References

"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
Dyer, Robert Allen. 1946. Flowering Plants of Africa. A Magazine Containing Coloured Figures with Descriptions of the Flowering Plants Indigenous in Africa v 25, t. 997, Strelitzia caudata
"Strelitzia caudata". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 24 October 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
"Strelitzia caudata R.A.Dyer". PlantZAfrica.com.