| English | banana | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | Cavendish banana | | as Musa nana | 1 | Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova. Note: = Musa nana |
| English | Chinese banana | | as Musa nana | 1 | Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova. Note: = Musa nana |
| English | dwarf banana | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| French | bananier | | | 2 | Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names |
| French | bananier nain | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| German | Banane | | | 2 | Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1564. |
| German | Zwergbanane | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Indonesian | pisang batu | | | 2 | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:130. |
| Indonesian (Java) | gedang klutuk | | | 2 | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:130. |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | banana-nanica | | | 2 | Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | nanicão | | | 2 | Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names |
| Spanish | plátano | | | 2 | Bibliograf, S. A., eds. 1964. Vox modern college Spanish & English dictionary. |
| Sudanese | cau batu | | | 2 | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:130. |
| Swedish | ädelbanan | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Uganda | bitoki | | | 2 | Simmonds, N. W. 1966. Bananas. Tropical Agriculture Series. 2nd edition. Note: Longman, NY, NY |
| unknown | bungulan | | | 2 | Merrill, E. D. 1922-1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. |