Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent
Kinabalu Mountain Banana
3 photographs › Summary
Musa monticola, also known as the Kinabalu mountain banana, is a species of wild banana (genus Musa), native to Sabah on the island of Borneo. It is placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa), having a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Musa monticola", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Musa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “herbaceous tree”, “wet tropical”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Musa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “herbaceous tree”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).
Related
Other Musa 29 in the reference
Musa acuminata Edible banana Photo: CC BY-SA, Ong Jyh Seng
Musa balbisiana Plantain Photo: CC BY, Mark Wagner
Musa banksii Maroon-stemmed Banana Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve Fitzgerald
Musa basjoo Japanese banana Photo: CC BY, rhiz
Musa beccarii Pisang Tajak Photo: CC BY, Brodie Cass Talbott
Musa borneensis Angkadan banana Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Musa bukensis Musaceae 
Musa campestris Swamp Banana Photo: CC BY, Kai Squires
Musa cheesmanii Cheesman's Banana Photo: CC BY, Wang.QG
Musa coccinea Scarlet banana Photo: CC BY, Luis G Restrepo
Musa gracilis Johore Banana Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan
Musa haekkinenii Musaceae Photo: CC BY, SnowFire all 30 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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