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banana family - treelike tropical Asian herbs

family Musaceae, Musaceae

liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

Musales, order Musales - tropical plants

genus Musa, Musa - type genus of the Musaceae: bananas

Ensete, genus Ensete - Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas

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She explains that the abaca, whose scientific name is musa textilis, is a member of the banana family, the Musaceae.

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