• Scientific Name: Magnolia coco (Lour.) DC.
• Ref: Syst. Nat. 1:459. 1817
• Synonyms:
  • Gwillimia indica Rottler ex DC.
  • Lirianthe coco (Lour.) N.H.Xia & C.Y.Wu
  • Liriodendron coco Lour.
  • Liriopsis pumila Spach ex Baill.
  • Talauma coco (Lour.) Merr.
• Chinese Common Name: 夜香木兰 yèxiāng mùlán, 夜合花 yèhé∙huā
• Family: Magnoliaceae
• Genus: Magnolia
• Distribution: Forests; 600-900 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Vietnam].
• Photo: 06/21/2015

Trees or shrubs, 2-4 m tall, glabrous. Bark gray. Twigs green, smooth, slightly ridged, glossy. Stipular scar reaching apex of petiole. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 7-14(-28) × 2-4.5(-9) cm, leathery, adaxially deep green, glossy, and slightly wavy wrinkled, secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, reticulate veins sparse, base cuneate, margin slightly revolute, apex long acuminate. Peduncle pendulous, with 3 or 4 bract scars. Flowers globose, 3-4 cm in diam. Tepals 9, obovate, fleshy, adaxially concave; 3 tepals of outer whorl greenish, ca. 2 cm, 5-veined; tepals of inner 2 whorls pure white, 3-4 × ca. 4 cm. Stamens 4-6 mm; filaments white, ca. 2 mm; connective exserted and forming a mucro; anthers ca. 3 mm. Gynoecium green, ovoid, 1.5-2 cm; carpels ca. 10, narrowly ovoid, 5-6 mm, abaxially with 1 furrow downward to base of style; styles short, deciduous after anthesis and leaving carpel with a truncate apex. Fruit ca. 3 cm; mature carpels nearly woody. Seeds ovoid, ca. 1 cm, apex laterally pitted adaxially, ventral furrow inconspicuous, base cuneate; endotesta brown. Fl. summer (all year in Guangzhou, Guangdong), fr. autumn. 2n = 38. (Flora of China)