| Status in China | Least Concern (LC) |
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Description:
Large evergreen trees to 30 m tall and 1 m in dbh; twigs glabrous except grayish puberulous on nodes when young. Leaves alternate, thinly leathery, obovate, narrowly obovate or oblong-obovate, 6.5-16 cm long and 3.5-6.5 cm wide, apex abruptly short acuminate, or acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, dark green and glossy above, glaucous beneath; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, without stipular scars. Flowers fragrant, solitary and axillary; tepals 6, in 2 whorls, the outer 3 obovate-elliptic, ca. 3 cm long, the inner 3 narrower; stamens many, 1.7-2 cm long. Aggregate fruit spicate, 10 cm long, stipe 2 cm long; follicles ellipsoid or ovoid, 1.2-1.5 cm long, apex with short and curved tip, outside inconspicuously sparsely lenticeled.
Distribution:
Tai Mo Shan, Ng Tung Chai. Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi. Vietnam.
Habitat and Ecology:
In forests. Flowering: Apr.
This species has ornamental value as a garden plant. In Hong Kong, all localities of its occurrence are in Country Parks under protection. This species has also been protected under the Forestry Regulations (Cap. 96 sub. leg.).
References:
劉玉壺，1987：廣東植物誌1：17-18。圖16。廣東科技出版社。廣州。
劉玉壺，1996：中國植物誌30：170，圖版45：7-9。科學出版社。北京。
Chen, B. L. & H. P. Nooteboom, 1993: Notes on Magnolianceae III: The Magnoliaceae of China. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80(4): 1079-1081. Fig. 16.
