Editing Musaceae (section)

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Santonian|present|[[Santonian]] - recent|ref=<ref name=mobot>{{Cite web |title=Zingiberales|url=http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/zingiberalesweb.htm|access-date=2023-06-18|website=www.mobot.org}}</ref>}}
| image = Musa_paradisiaca_Blanco1.88.png
| image_caption = [[Musa × paradisiaca|''Musa'' × ''paradisiaca'']]
| taxon = Musaceae
| authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
| type_genus = ''[[Musa (genus)|Musa]]''
| type_genus_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = * ''[[Ensete]]''
* ''[[Musa (genus)|Musa]]''
* ''[[Musella lasiocarpa|Musella]]'' (also treated within ''Ensete'')
| range_map = Map-Musaceae.PNG
| range_map_caption = {{legend|#0000ff|Musaceae distribution}}
}}

'''Musaceae''' is a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[flowering plant]]s composed of three genera with about 91 known species,<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W.  |name-list-style=amp | year = 2016 | title = The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 261 | pages = 201–217 | url = http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 | issue = 3 | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi-access = free }}</ref> placed in the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Zingiberales]]. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be [[wood]]y trees. In most treatments, the family has three [[Genus (biology)|genera]], ''[[Musa (genus)|Musa]]'', ''[[Musella (plant)|Musella]]'' and ''[[Ensete]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wilkin|first1=Paul|last2=Demissew|first2=Sebsebe|last3=Willis|first3=Kathy|last4=Woldeyes|first4=Feleke|last5=Davis|first5=Aaron P.|last6=Molla|first6=Ermias L.|last7=Janssens|first7=Steven|last8=Kallow|first8=Simon|last9=Berhanu|first9=Admas|title=Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple|journal=Annals of Botany|volume=123|issue=5|pages=747–766|language=en|doi=10.1093/aob/mcy214|year=2019|pmid=30715125|pmc=6526316}}</ref> Cultivated [[banana]]s are commercially important members of the family, and many others are grown as [[ornamental plants]].