Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida Batsch - monocotyledons |
| order | Zingiberales Grisebach |
| family | Musaceae (Durande) Juss. |
| genus | Ensete Bruce ex Horan. - ensete |
| species | Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman - Abyssinian Banana |
| cultivar | Ensete ventricosum 'Montbeliardii' |