Magnolia rimachii

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 140500 metres (4601,600 ft) in elevation.

Description

Magnolia rimachii has chartaceous elliptic leaves 1226 cm long and 510 cm broad; flowers are fragrant and can have 6 or 7 obovate petals 2 - 4.5 cm long and 12 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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