''Musa peekelii'' is a species of wild banana (

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''), native to eastern

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

and the

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. It is placed in section ''Callimusa'' (now including the former section ''Australimusa''), members of which have a

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number of 2n = 20. It is a very tall plant, reaching over , with a narrow green drooping bud. The ripe bananas are red with bright yellow flesh. It is one of the possible parents of the cultivated

Fe'i banana Fe'i bananas (also spelt Fehi or Féi) are cultivated plants in the genus ''Musa'', used mainly for their fruit. Unlike most other cultivated bananas they are diploids of the AA-type. They are very distinct in appearance and origin from the ma ...

s. The subspecies ''M. peekelii'' subsp. ''angustigemma'' has been treated as a separate species, ''M. angustigemma''.

References

peekelii Plants described in 1913 Flora of Papua New Guinea Flora of the Bismarck Archipelago {{Zingiberales-stub