Abstract Since the initial description, the name Musa aurantiaca Baker (1893) has been unclear to most
botanists. The aim of this study is to settle its true identity and to update the description. The plant is distributed in
the regions of Upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, India, Northern Myanmar and Tibet, China where it occurs
commonly but it is not mentioned in Chinese literature at all. In this paper, the authors also review the description
and the literature history of M. aurantiaca from 1893 to the present. Musa aurantiaca Baker is typified here