Magnolia rimachii
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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
- ^ a b c d 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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