Bananas– The war on wilt, Taxonomy

Bananas– The war on wilt, Taxonomy  ;Rody Blom, Saskia Bollerman, Janna Horjus, Koen Rurenga
Bananas belong to the genus Musa of the Musaceae in the order Zingiberales (Stover and Simmonds, 1987).
Musaceae includes 2 genera, Ensete and Musa.
The family has not been revised after the classical work of Cheesman (1947–1950) and Simmonds (1953, 1962), although several species have been subsequently described (Nayar, 2010).