Vasilis Teodoridis:
Magnoliaceae | Michelia
30. Michelia martini (H. Léveillé) Finet & Gagnepain ex H. Léveillé; Fl. Kouy-Tchéou. 270. 1914.
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Magnolia martini H. Léveillé; Bull. Soc. Agric. Sarthe 39: 321. 1904; Michelia bodinieri Finet & Gagnepain; M. longistamina Y. W. Law.
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 x 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 x 2-2.4 cm; inner tepals oblanceolate; ca. 4 x 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.
Forests; 1000-2000 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; S Henan; W Hubei; Hunan; C and S Sichuan; E Yunnan [Vietnam].
Michelia funingensis D. X. Li & Y. W. Law (in Y. H. Liu; Magnolias China; 265. 2004) belongs here but was not validly published because no Latin description or diagnosis was provided and no type was indicated (Vienna Code; Art. 36.1 and 37.1).