《中国植物志》|| 芭蕉科 MUSACEAE ||芭蕉属 Musa L. ||野蕉 Musa balbisiana Colla

1. 野蕉（广州植物志） 伦阿蕉（云南景颇语）；山芭蕉（广东）
Musa balbisiana Colla, Men. Gen. Musa 56. 1820; Cheesm. in Kew Bull. 1948: 11. 1948.
假茎丛生，高约6米，黄绿色，有大块黑斑，具匍匐茎。叶片卵状长圆形，长约2.9米， 宽约90厘米，基部耳形，两侧不对称，叶面绿色，微被蜡粉；叶柄长约75厘米，叶翼张开约2厘米，但幼时常闭合。花序长2.5米，雌花的苞片脱落，中性花及雄花的苞片宿存，苞片卵形至披针形，外面暗紫红色，被白粉，内面紫红色，开放后反卷；合生花被片具条纹，外面淡紫白色，内面淡紫色；离生花被片乳白色，透明，倒卵形，基部圆形，先端内凹，在凹陷处有一小尖头。果丛共8段，每段有果2列，约15-16个。浆果倒卵形，长约13厘米，直径4厘米，灰绿色，棱角明显，先端收缩成一具棱角、长约2厘米的柱状体，基部渐狭成长2.5厘米的柄，果内具多数种子；种子扁球形，褐色，具疣。
产云南西部、广西、广东，生于沟谷坡地的湿润常绿林中。亚洲南部、东南部均有分布。
假茎可作猪饲料。本种是目前世界上栽培香蕉的亲本种之一。

《云南植物志》|| 芭蕉科 Musaceae ||芭蕉属 Musa Linn. ||伦阿蕉 Musa balbisiana Colla

1．伦阿蕉（云南景颇语）
Musa balbisiana Colla (1820); Cheesman (1948).
假茎丛生，具匍匐茎，黄绿色，有大块黑斑，高约6米。叶卵状长圆形，长约2.9米，宽约90厘米，基部耳形，两侧不对称，上面绿色，微被蜡粉，中肋在上面绿色下面黄绿色，微被蜡粉，叶柄长约75厘米，叶翼张开约2厘米，但幼时常闭合。花序长2.5米，雌花的苞片脱落，中性花及雄花的苞片宿存，苞片卵形至披针形，外面暗紫红色，被白粉，内面紫红色，开放后反卷；合生花被片具条纹，外面淡紫白色，内面淡紫色，离生花被片乳白色，透明，倒卵形，基部圆形，先端内凹，在凹陷处有一小尖头。果序共8段，每段有果2列，约15—16个。浆果倒卵形，长约13厘米，直径4厘米，灰绿色，稜角明显，先端收缩成一具稜角长约2厘米的柱状体，基部渐狭成长2.5厘米的柄，果内具多数种子。种子扁球形，褐色，具疣。
产云南西部。生于沟谷坡地的湿润常绿林中，海拔约1100米。斯里兰卡，印度，缅甸，泰国，马来西亚至菲律宾也有。
假茎可作猪饲料。

《Flora of China》|| Musaceae || Musa ||野蕉 Musa balbisiana

5. Musa balbisiana Colla, Mem. Gen. Musa. 56. 1820.

野蕉 ye jiao

Musa dechangensis J. L. Liu & M. G. Liu; M. lushanensis J. L. Liu; M. luteola J. L. Liu; M. ( paradisiaca Linnaeus subsp. seminifera (Loureiro) Baker; M. seminifera Loureiro.

Pseudostems clumped, yellow-green, often with large, black markings, ca. 6 m. Petiole 60--75 cm, margin open, ca. 2 cm wide, often closed when young; leaf blade adaxially green and slightly pruinose or not, ovate-oblong, ca. 2.9 m × 90 cm, base auriculate, asymmetric. Inflorescence pendulous, ca. 2.5 m; peduncle and rachis glabrous. Bracts of bisexual and male flowers adaxially purple-red, abaxially brownish purple to yellow-green and pruinose, ovate to lanceolate, persistent, apex obtuse, reflexed after flowering; bracts of female flowers deciduous. Male flowers up to 20 per bract, in 2 rows. Compound tepal adaxially pale purple, abaxially pale purple-white, 4--5 cm, striate, teeth yellow to orange; free tepal milky white, translucent, obovate, ca. 1/2 as long as compound tepal, apex emarginate, shortly mucronate-apiculate. Infructescence pendulous, with ca. 8 clusters (“hands”) each of 15 or 16 berries in 2 rows. Berries gray-green, obovoid, ca. 13 × 4 cm, distinctly angled at maturity, base narrowed into a stalk ca. 2.5 cm, apex contracted or not into a short, angled column ca. 2 cm. Seeds numerous, brown, oblate, 5--10 mm in diam., minutely warty. 2 n = 22.

Ravines in evergreen forests; ca. 1100 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Xizang, W Yunnan [India, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand].

The species is used to feed pigs.