Magnolia rimachii
Magnolia rimachii is a small to medium-sized tree of the family Magnoliaceae 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.[2][3]
| Magnolia rimachii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Magnoliaceae |
| Genus: | Magnolia |
| Section: | Magnolia sect. Talauma |
| Species: | M. rimachii |
| Binomial name | |
| Magnolia rimachii | |
| Synonyms | |
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Talauma rimachii Lozano | |
Description
Magnolia rimachii has chartaceous elliptic leaves 12–26 cm long and 5–10 cm broad.[2] Flowers are fragrant and can have 6 or 7 obovate petals 2–4.5 cm long and 1–2 cm wide.[2] The elliptic fruit can be ca. 3.5 cm long.[2]
References
- https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/193997/2293735
- Lozano, Gustavo (1994). Dugandiodendron y Talauma (Magnoliaceae) en el Neotropico (in Spanish). Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas. p. 105. ISBN 9789589205006.
- "Tropicos | Name - Magnolia rimachii (Lozano) Govaerts". tropicos.org. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
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