Magnolia zenii

Zen magnolia
August foliage San Francisco Botanical Garden, 2006
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Magnoliaceae
Genus:	Magnolia
Subgenus:	M. subg. Yulania
Section:	M. sect. Yulania subsect. Yulania
Species:	M. zenii
Binomial name
Magnolia zenii Cheng

Magnolia zenii is a species of plant in the Magnoliaceae family. It is endemic to China.

Listed as “critically endangered,” there were only a few dozen left of these found when the variety was first discovered in China in 1931 according to MEG McCONAHEY writing in THE PRESS DEMOCRAT.

Sources

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Magnolia zenii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.