Magnolia rimachii

Magnolia rimachii
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 (460–1,640 ft) in elevation.[1][2]

Description

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lozano, Gustavo (1994). Dugandiodendron y Talauma (Magnoliaceae) en el Neotropico (in Spanish). Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas. p. 105. ISBN 9789589205006.
  2. ↑ "Tropicos | Name - Magnolia rimachii (Lozano) Govaerts". tropicos.org. Retrieved 2016-05-24.


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