Although Baker gives Mann as the
author, the description was done by Baker alone. He
placed the new species in the section Rhodochlamys.
Musa aurantiaca Baker in Ann. Bot. 7: 222. 1893.
Type: India. Assam: Mahuni Forest; Lakhinpur, IX.
1890, Gustav Mann (lectotype designated here, K
000308203!) (Fig. 1).