What fruit has the Latin name Musa sapientum?
Musa acuminata published various names for this species and its hybrids mistaken for different species (notably "Musa sapientum" by Linnaeus which is now known to be a hybrid of "Musa acuminata" and "Musa balbisiana"), Colla's publication is the oldest name for the species and thus has precedence over the others from the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Colla also was the first authority to recognize that both "Musa acuminata" and "Musa balbisiana" were wild ancestral species, even though the specimen he described was a naturally occurring seedless polyploid like cultivated bananas. "Musa acuminata" is highly variable and the number
Ernest Entwistle Cheesman have bestowed Latin binomials upon them. Others have preferred to regard them as varieties of one mythical "species" (usually called "Musa sapientum") which is supposed to exist somewhere in the wild and fertile condition … Such mistakes... are not peculiar to the genus "Musa", but they are unusually conspicuous in this group"". "Giving a seed-bearing wild species the status of subspecies to a seedless cultivar is a good example of the stultifying effect formal nomenclature has had on crop taxonomy." "Musa cheesmanii" N.W.Simmonds is a tribute to his work on the Musaceae. Simmonds was a 1950s research worker on Musaceae