vThe only wild Musaceae species indigenous
to West Africa is Ensete gillettii, an
enset with an inedible fruit
found in rocky areas across West
Africa used mainly for magical purposes
or as a famine food.
vNames for this plant in West-Central
Nigeria incorporate the root #-kom and it is
likely that this term that can be
reconstructed back to proto-Benue-Congo.
vIt has also been borrowed into the unrelated but intertwined Chadic languages. At some point, this name has been transferred either to plantain or to the cultivated Musaceae in general