 Thereafter, taxonomists have variously treated it as a unique species or as a subspecies of "Musa acuminata".The first one to note an affinity with "Musa acuminata" was Ernest E. Cheesman in 1948.In 1957, Norman Simmonds reclassified it as a subspecies of "Musa acuminata" based on extensive field observations in New Guinea, Australia, and Samoa.