- Genus species: Musa spp.
- Family: Musaceae
- English name: Desert banana
- Chuukese name:
- Kosrean name: Fiji
- Pohnpeian name: Uht in Pisih
- Mwokilese name: Wis in Pihji
- Yapese name:
- Growth form: tree
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growth zone: tropical
- Average height: 3.0-7.0m
- Stem: non-woody, smooth, made from tightly rolled spiral leaf bases
- Leaf arrangement: whorled, simple
- Stipule:
- Petioles: .3-.5m
- Leaf blade: Oblong, marjin is entire, refuse tip, slightly shiny surface, parallel
venation opposite to rachis, light green, 3.0m in length
- Infloresence: complex spike
- Floral bracts: ovate, reddish
- Flower: nodal clusters in two rows, zygomorphic, lower basal produce female flowers 5-15
basal nodes, upper or distal nodes produce male flowers, in between upper and lower basal
nodes are sterile flowers, flower clusters are arranged spirally(S.L. Kochar, Tropical
Crops)
- Calyx: fused
- Corolla: undetermined
- Stamens: contains five on the male flowers which produce unfunctional pollen
- Ovary: inferior
- Pistil:
- Fruit: berry, endocarp fleshy, simple fruit,green when not ripe, yellow when ripe
- Seed: none observed, brown specks in the center of the fruit represent ovule reminants
- Anything else: most important and most widely grown tropical plant
- Cultural usage: leaf is used for uhmw, wrapping food and umbrella, trunk is used for
various medicinal purposes