A study on Morphological and Anatomical Characters of Some Bananas in Thailand

Abstract

Five species of wild and cultivated bananas were collected for a comparative study on their morphological and anatomical characters. There are Bua-chompoo (Musa rosea Jack), Rio wee (Musa chiliocarpa Black.), Pha (Musa superba Roxb.) Lepmue nag (Musa spientum Linn.) and Tani kab dum (Musa balbisiana colla). Wild species were brought to grow and investigated at the Department of Botany, Kasetsart University and cultivated species were obtained from the Department of Horticulture, Faclty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Kamphaengsaen Campus, at Nakhon Pathom, Morphological characters were mainly based on pseudostem, leaf, and inflorescence while the anatomical studied were focused on cross section of leaves, pollen grain and stomata.