Magnolia rimachii

Magnolia amazonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Magnoliaceae
Genus:	Magnolia
Species:	M. rimachii
Binomial name
Magnolia rimachii (Lozano) Govaerts.

Magnolia rimachii is a small to medium sized tree of the Magnoliaceae family commonly reaching 8 to 15 m high. It is found in the western lowland Amazon Basin tropical forest, in Ecuador and Peru, between 140–500 metres (460–1,600 ft) in elevation.

Description

Magnolia rimachii has chartaceous elliptic leaves 12 – 26 cm long and 5 – 10 cm broad; flowers are fragrant and can have 6 or 7 obovate petals 2 - 4.5 cm long and 1 – 2 cm wide. The elliptic fruit can be ca. 3.5 cm long.

References

Lozano-Contreras, G. Dugandiodendron y Talauma (Magnoliaceae) en el Neotropico. Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas. Bogotá. 1994

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