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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Vaco
Description
Genus Magnolia
Trees
or shrubs
, deciduous or evergreen
. Pith
homogeneous
or diaphragmed
. Leaves distinctly alternate or sometimes crowded in terminal
whorl-like clusters
; stipules early deciduous, free
or adnate
to and proximal
on petiole
. Leaf blade
: base
deeply cordate or auriculate
or cuneate to abruptly narrowed or rounded
, margins
entire
, apex obtuse
or acute to acuminate; surfaces abaxially chalky white or green to glaucous, pubescent
or glabrous
. Flowers protogynous, appearing with or before leaves; tepals 9-15, petaloid
, usually spreading
, creamy white, rarely greenish, yellow, or orange-yellow, outermost tepals sepaloid
, sometimes strongly reflexed
, greenish; stamens on elongate
torus, early deciduous; filaments
white or purple, very short; anthers
introrse
or latrorse
. Follicles persistent
, coalescent
, forming conelike aggregate, abaxially dehiscent. Seeds with red, pink, or orange oily aril, extruded from follicles and suspended by funiculi. x
=19.
Species ca.
120: temperate
and tropical regions
, Western Hemisphere, Asia (Himalayas, China, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia) .Christopher H. Haufler, Michael D. Windham, Frank A. Lang, S. A. Whitmore "Magnolia". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Habitat
Ecology: Occurs in cloud forest between 1,000 and 2,600 m. (Ref. 88242)
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Magnoliales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Subfamily:
Magnolioideae
()
- Tribe:
Magnolieae
()
- Genus:
Magnolia
()
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 535. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 240, 1754.
- [For Pierre Magnol (1638-1715), professor and director of the botanical garden at Montpellier, France]
- Specific epithet:
sororum
- Collenette 1933
- Subspecies:
sororum
- Botanical name: - Magnolia sororum sororum Collenette 1933
- Subspecies:
sororum
- Specific epithet:
sororum
- Collenette 1933
- Genus:
Magnolia
(
- Tribe:
Magnolieae
(
- Subfamily:
Magnolioideae
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Magnoliales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Magnolia sororum Seibert
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name .
Similar Species
Members of the genus Magnolia
There are approximately 1051 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
M. alba · M. brooklynensis · M. gotoburgensis · M. highdownensis · M. hybrida · M. kewensis · M. lenneana · M. lennei · M. norbertiana · M. proctoriana · M. slavinii · M. soulangeana · M. speciosa · M. thompsoniana · M. veitchii · M. × loebneri · M. 'Advance' · M. 'Albatross' · M. 'Alixeed' · M. 'Ambrosia' · M. 'Andre Harvey' · M. 'Anilou' · M. 'Ann' (Ann Magnolia) · M. 'Anne Rosse' · M. 'Anticipation' (Anticipation Magnolia) · M. 'Apollo' · M. 'Asian Artistry' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Athene' (Magnolia) · M. 'Atlas' · M. 'Banana Split' · M. 'Betty' (Betty Magnolia) · M. 'Big Dude' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Black Beauty' · M. 'Black Tulip' · M. 'Blushing Belle' · M. 'Butterflies' · M. 'Caerhays Belle' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Caerhays New Purple' · M. 'Caerhays Surprise' · M. 'Candy Cane' · M. 'Captain McEacharn' · M. 'Cathryn' · M. 'Cecil Nice' · M. 'Chang Hua' · M. 'Charles Coates' (Magnolia) · M. 'Columbus' · M. 'Coral Lake' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Coral' · M. 'Cream Mist' · M. 'Cup Cake' · M. 'Daphne' · M. 'Dark Shadow' · M. 'Darrell Dean' · M. 'David Clulow' · M. 'Daybreak' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Editor Hopkins' · M. 'Elisa Odenwald' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Elisabeth Holman' · M. 'Elizabeth' (Elizabeth Magnolia) · M. 'Emma Cook' · M. 'Eskimo' · M. 'Felicity' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Felix Jury' · M. 'Fireglow' · M. 'Flamingo' · M. 'Fourteen Carat' · M. 'Frank Gladney' · M. 'Frank's Masterpiece' · M. 'Freeman' · M. 'Full Eclipse' · M. 'George Henry Kern' · M. 'Glow' · M. 'Gold Crown' (Cucumber Magnolia) · M. 'Gold Star' · M. 'Golden Endeavour' · M. 'Golden Gift' · M. 'Golden Goblet' · M. 'Golden Pond' · M. 'Golden Rain' · M. 'Golden Sun' · M. 'Goldfinch' (Cucumber Magnolia) · M. 'Green Bee' · M. 'Green Mist' · M. 'Green Snow' · M. 'Hattie Carthan' (Deciduous Magnolia) · M. 'Hawk' · M. 'Heaven Scent' (Magnolia) · M. 'Helen Fogg' · M. 'Honey Liz' · M. 'Hong Yur' · M. 'Hot Flash' · M. 'Hot Lips' · M. 'Ian's Red' · M. 'Indian Tapestry' · M. 'Iolanthe' · M. 'Iolanthe' × · M. 'J.C. Williams' · M. 'Jane' (Jane Magnolia) · M. 'Jersey Belle' · M. 'Jing Ning'
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 19, 2007.
- International Organization for Plant Information
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 21, 2008.
- Mitré, M. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Mitré, M. 1998. Magnolia sororum ssp. sororum. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3905242
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-117839
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14299026
- IUCN ID: 35603
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 432381
