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I think David Constantine may well have been trying to draw a distinction between regular M. Basjoo and M. Basjoo var. Formosana, (whether this is correct or not I couldn't say).
This is distinct from M. Formosana.
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David Constantine
was trying to draw a distinction between regular M. basjoo and M. basjoo var. formosana. But that is
not distinct from M. formosana. Musa basjoo var. formosana is a synonym for Musa formosana. Your comment about the remote suckering of M. itinerans is one of the reasons that some people refuse to accept that M. formosana (= M.basjoo var. formosana) might itself be a synonym for Musa itinerans var. itinerans.
However you are right to suggest that M. balbisiana should be written as M. balbisiana var. liukiuensis (as it was further down this series of posts), when it refers to form on Taiwan and in the Ryukyus.