Musella occurs as genus comprising of these or even 2 mintage (Musella lasiocarpa, M. splendida) in the personal Musaceae native to southeast Asia, including southwest China (Yunnan and Guizhou), Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar. This taxonomic category has induced & continues to stimulator problems for taxonomists and its status is still somewhat controversial.

A plant was foremost formally known as by Franchet in 1889 who positioned it in the genus Musa, as Musa lasiocarpa, however around the fresh subdivision that he known as Musella. Around 1947, Cheesman examined herbarium poop at Kew and on the evidence prior to him commented that "whatever it may be, it is certainly not a Musa, sensu stricto" & was does'nt so prepared to separate a plant from either Ensete. When noting that farther survey will buy that the plant represented a newly genus Cheesman so created the combination Ensete lasiocarpum when reviving a genus Ensete in his 1947 paper.

Norman Simmonds (1960) disagreed by having Cheesman although he acknowledged that a general appearance of the plant did indeed indicate an Ensete. Simmonds noted all a same that the "perianth structure is like that of Musa" & that a "perianth characters are critically diagnostic of genus". Although these are clear that he got non actually seen a dwelling plant Simmonds so favorite to regard the plant when Musa lasiocarpa.

More taxonomists assume a plant to become an anomaly within two Musa & Ensete, & around 1978 C. Y. Wu raised Musella to the status of the separate genus. John Kress at a Smithsonian Institution hwhen (as yet unpublished) molecular likewise as morphological information to trend lines a status of Musella as a distinct genus. A publication of this definitive operate is however anticipated.

Within 2002 the freshly Musella metal money, M. splendida, was described from either Vietnam (Valmayor and Danh, 2002).