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Musa troglodytarum; photograph (c) natomik, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) natomik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2005-03-10

Musa troglodytarum L.

Fe'i banana

Musaceae · Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea +2 · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Musa troglodytarum, photograph Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia CommonsMusa troglodytarum, photograph 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMusa troglodytarum, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMusa troglodytarum, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMusa troglodytarum, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMusa troglodytarum, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Fe'i bananas (also spelt Fehi or Féi) are cultivated plants in the genus Musa, used mainly for their fruit. They are very distinct in appearance and origin from the majority of bananas and plantains currently grown. Found mainly in the islands of the Pacific, particularly French Polynesia, Fe'i bananas have skins which are brilliant orange to red in colour with yellow or orange flesh inside. They are usually eaten cooked and have been an important food for Pacific Islanders, moving with them as they migrated across the ocean. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fe'i banana", 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”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 3 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., New Caledonia · introduced: Jawa, Maluku, Fiji, Santa Cruz Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Hawaii · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“herbaceous tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 24 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons; 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Musa 29 in the reference

Musa acuminata Musa acuminata Edible banana Photo: CC BY-SA, Ong Jyh SengMusa balbisiana Musa balbisiana Plantain Photo: CC BY, Mark WagnerMusa banksii Musa banksii Maroon-stemmed Banana Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldMusa basjoo Musa basjoo Japanese banana Photo: CC BY, rhizMusa beccarii Musa beccarii Pisang Tajak Photo: CC BY, Brodie Cass TalbottMusa borneensis Musa borneensis Angkadan banana Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Musa bukensis Musaceae Musa campestris Musa campestris Swamp Banana Photo: CC BY, Kai SquiresMusa cheesmanii Musa cheesmanii Cheesman's Banana Photo: CC BY, Wang.QGMusa coccinea Musa coccinea Scarlet banana Photo: CC BY, Luis G RestrepoMusa gracilis Musa gracilis Johore Banana Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanMusa haekkinenii Musa haekkinenii Musaceae Photo: CC BY, SnowFire all 30 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Musa fehi; Musa rectispica; Musa seemannii; Musa troglodytarum var. acutibracteata; Musa uranoscopos. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Musaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is. +1
Wild records
4 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Fe'i banana, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q3067814)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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