• Scientific Name: Magnolia martini H.Lév.
• Ref: Bull. Soc. Agric. Sarthe:6. 1904
• Synonyms: Michelia bodinieri Finet & Gagnep.; M. longistamina Y.W.Law; M. martini (H.Lév.) H.Lév.
• Chinese Common Name: 黄心夜合 huángxīn yèhé, 黄心含笑 huángxīn hánxiào, 马氏含笑 Mǎ-shi hánxiào
• Family: Magnoliaceae
• Genus: Magnolia
• Distribution: Forests; 1000-2000 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, S Henan, W Hubei, Hunan, C and S Sichuan, E Yunnan [Vietnam].
• Photo: 03/05/2017, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University

Trees, to 20 m tall. Bark gray, smooth. Old twigs brown, scattered with lenticels; young twigs olive green, glabrous; buds ovoid to ellipsoid-ovoid, with dense grayish yellow to reddish brown erect long trichomes. Petiole 1.5-2 cm, without a stipular scar; leaf blade narrowly obovate-elliptic, 12-18 × 3-5 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, adaxially deep green and glossy, midvein abaxially prominent, secondary veins 11-17 on each side of midvein and nearly parallel, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex acute to shortly caudate. Brachyblasts thick and strong, ca. 7 mm, densely yellowish brown tomentose. Flowers fragrant. Tepals 6-8, pale yellow; outer tepals obovate-oblong, 4-4.5 × 2-2.4 cm; inner tepals oblanceolate, ca. 4 × 1.1-1.3 cm. Stamens 1.3-1.8 cm; filaments purple; connective exserted and forming a ca. 0.5 mm tip; anthers 1-1.2 cm, dehiscing laterally. Gynoecium pale green, ca. 3 cm; carpels ellipsoid-ovoid, ca. 1 cm; ovules 8-12 per carpel; styles nearly as long as carpels. Fruit 8-15 cm, wrinkled; mature carpels obovoid to ellipsoid-ovoid, 1-2 cm, dehiscing along both ventral and dorsal sutures at same time, white lenticellate, apex shortly beaked. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 38. (Flora of China)

03/05/2017, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University