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Magnolia longipedunculata (Q. W. Zeng & Y. W. Law) V. S. Kumar.

Trees, to 15 cm tall, to 50 cm d.b.h. Bark blackish brown. Vegetative buds, young twigs, petioles, peduncles, and leaf blade abaxial surfaces reddish brown erect villous. Twigs green when young, brown when old. Stipular scar 7-8 mm. Petiole 2.5-3.5 cm, furrowed; leaf blade obovate-elliptic to elliptic, 13-19(-22) × 5-7 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, midvein abaxially prominent, secondary veins 13 or 14 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, apex shortly acuminate to acuminate. Peduncle 5.5-6 cm, slender. Flowers fragrant. Tepals 9 or 11(or 12); outer 3 tepals elliptic, 10-10.5 × ca. 4 cm, abaxially pale green, adaxially white, 5-veined; middle 3 tepals white, obovate-elliptic, 8-9 × ca. 3.5 cm, thickly fleshy; inner 3 tepals white, obovate-spatulate, 7-8 × 2.5-3 cm, thickly fleshy. Stamens numerous, red, ca. 2.5 cm; filaments purplish red, ca. 3 mm; connective red, exserted and forming a semiorbicular mucro; anthers yellow, ca. 2 cm. Gynoecium pale yellowish green, ovoid, ca. 3.5 × 3 cm; carpels 50-60; ovules 3 or 4 per carpel; styles lanceolate, slightly curved; stigmas pale red, glabrous. Fruiting peduncle 5.5-6 cm. Fruit ovoid; mature carpels thickly woody, tuberculate, dehiscing along dorsal suture. Seeds compressed ovoid. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 700-800 m. Guangdong (Longmen).