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<em>Musa paradisiaca</em></h2>
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<em>Musa paradisiaca</em> is one of the Latin binomial names that has been applied to edible bananas. As the first banana to be described by the celebrated 18th century botanist Carl Linneaus, it is technically the "type species" for the genus <a href="tiki-index.php?page=Musa"><em>Musa</em></a>. It was described .   Except that the banana Linneaus described is a cultivar which, as specialists later noted, does not represent a species in any reasonable sense of the word. Nevertheless, this name and others that were proposed in its wake, continue to be used to designate cultivars despite the development of an alternative nomenclature system.<br />
It is Ernest Cheesman who noticed that the model for &lt;em&gt;Musa paradisiaca&lt;/em&gt; was in fact a type of &lt;a href="tiki-index.php?page=Plantain+subgroup&amp;structure=Cultivar+diversity+portal&amp;page_ref_id=78"&gt;plantain&lt;/a&gt;<a id="ref_footnote1" href="#footnote1" class="footlink " data-toggle="popover" data-target="#footnotecontent1" data-html="true" data-trigger="hover" >1</a>
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