恒春拟单性木兰 heng chun ni dan xing mu lan

Michelia kachirachirai Kanehira & Yamamoto, Icon. Pl. Formosan., Suppl. 2: 14 1926; Magnolia kachirachirai (Kanehira & Yamamoto) Dandy; Micheliopsis kachirachirai (Kanehira & Yamamoto) H. Keng.

Trees, to 20 m tall, to 1.2 m d.b.h., with bisexual flowers. Dry bark dark brown, smooth, massively scaly fissured when old. Petiole 0.5-2 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, 6.5-12 × 2-3 cm, thinly leathery, secondary veins 14-16 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Peduncle 1-1.5 cm; spathaceous bract 1, brown, ca. 2.5 cm, glabrous. Tepals 9-12, in 3 or 4 whorls, pale yellow, obovate-oblong, 2.5-4 × 1-1.5 cm; tepals of innermost whorl usually smaller. Stamens 50-60, 1.4-1.8 cm; connective exserted and forming a mucro; anthers 1.2-1.5 cm. Gynophore 0.5-0.8 cm; gynoecium ovoid, 1.2-1.4 cm; carpels 9-18. Fruit long cylindric, 2-2.5 × 1.2-1.5 cm. Seeds without testa flat, orbicular or reniform. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Oct-Nov.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 500-1300 m. Taiwan.

This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber.