Musa itinerans

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

|image = Jardín_de_Aclimatación_de_La_Orotava_-_Musa_itinerans_30-01-2016_16-16-37.JPG

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn | author1 = Allen, R. | author2 = Plummer, J. | name-list-style = amp | title = Musa itinerans | page = e.T111907139A111907141 | year = 2020 | access-date = 2022-02-27}}

|genus = Musa

|parent = Musa sect. Musa

|species = itinerans

|authority = Cheesman

}}

Musa itinerans, the Yunnan banana, is a species of banana found in continental Southeast Asia from Northeast India to Vietnam.{{Cite journal |last=Häkkinen |first=Markku |date=1 February 2008 |title=Musa itinerans (Musaceae) and Its Intraspecific Taxa in China |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/121823 |journal=Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature|volume=18 |pages=50–60 |doi=10.3417/2006162 |s2cid=85794853 }} The tender inner stalk is also harvested and eaten. It is the landmark 24,200th plant species saved at Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank Project. With this addition, the seed bank had collected 10% of the world’s wild plant species.[http://www.kew.org/news/kew-millennium-seed-bank-partnership-top-banana-celebrate-banking-10-percent.htm kew.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017142236/http://www.kew.org/news/kew-millennium-seed-bank-partnership-top-banana-celebrate-banking-10-percent.htm |date=2009-10-17 }} In China it is an important food for wild Asian elephants.

Musa itinerans is found in the Assam region of Northwest India, Bangladesh, Southeast and South-central China, the Hainan province of China, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.{{Cite web |title=Musa itinerans Cheesman {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:584951-1 |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}