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Fig. 12.3 Typical Musa textilis plant
A reclassification of Fr. Blanco's Key to Musa species in the Philippines was
done by Dr. Nicanor G. Teodoro in 1915. Dr. Teodoro used the collections of the
College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Ba˜os (UPLB), as
working materials for the reclassification. Teodoro's Key to Species and varieties
of the Genus Musa were extensively used in describing banana cultivars grown in
the Philippines, until it was superseded by the taxonomic scheme of Cheesman [ 15 ],
Simmonds, and Shepherd [ 16 ] and lately by the taxonomic classification adapted by
the curators of the national banana variety collections of Southeast Asia [ 14 ]
(Fig. 12.4 ).