形态描述

常绿乔木，高达30米，树皮灰色至深褐色，小枝无毛或嫩时节上被灰色微柔毛。叶薄革质，倒卵形，狭倒卵形或长圆状倒卵形，长 6.5-15cm，宽3.5-6.5 cm，先端短渐尖，基部楔形或阔楔形，上面深绿色，有光泽；叶柄上面具沟，无托叶痕，嫩时被微柔毛。花单生于叶腋，淡黄绿色，芳香。花梗长4-10mm，被平伏灰色微柔毛；花被片6枚，2轮，外轮倒卵状椭圆形，长约3cm，宽约1.5cm，内轮较狭；雄蕊长约1.7-2cm，药隔伸长成1mm的尖头；雌蕊群狭圆柱形，雌蕊群柄密被银灰色平伏微柔毛。聚合果穗状，长约10cm；蓇葖长圆体形或卵圆形，顶端具短细弯尖头，基部宽；种子卵形或长圆状卵圆形，红色。花期3-4月，果期8-9月。

分布地区

杭州各区均有栽培，生于山地林间。分布于广东、广西、贵州、湖南、江西；越南也有。

主要用途

可供绿化观赏。

中国植物志英文版

Magnolia chapensis (Dandy) Sima; M. jiangxiensis (Hung T. Chang & B. L. Chen) Figlar; M. microcarpa (B. L. Chen & S. C. Yang) Sima; Michelia brachyandra B. L. Chen & S. C. Yang; M. chartacea B. L. Chen & S. C. Yang; M. constricta Dandy; M. glaberrima Hung T. Chang; M. jiangxiensis Hung T. Chang & B. L. Chen; M. microcarpa B. L. Chen & S. C. Yang; M. tsoi Dandy. Trees, 15-30 m tall, to 1 m d.b.h. Bark gray to dark brown. Twigs glabrous or nodes grayish puberulous when young. Petiole 1-2.5 cm, adaxially furrowed, glabrous or puberulous when young but later glabrescent, without a stipular scar; leaf blade obovate, narrowly obovate, or oblong-obovate, 6.5-15(-16) × 3-6.5(-7) cm, thinly leathery, adaxially deep green and glossy, secondary veins 9-12(-15) on each side of midvein, reticulate veins sparse, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or obtuse, apex acute to shortly acuminate, acumen obtuse. Brachyblasts 4-10 mm, appressed gray puberulous, with 2-5 bract scars. Flowers fragrant. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls, pale yellow; outer tepals obovate-elliptic, ca. 3 × 1.5 cm; inner tepals narrower. Stamens 1.7-2 cm; connective exserted and forming a ca. 1 mm mucro; anthers 1.1-1.5 cm. Gynophore ca. 7-10 mm, densely silvery appressed puberulous; gynoecium narrowly cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm; carpels ovoid, ca. 2 mm; ovules 6 per carpel; styles ca. 1.5 mm. Fruiting brachyblasts ca. 2 mm. Fruit 3.5-10 cm; mature carpels ellipsoid to ovoid, 1-1.5 × ca. 1 cm, base broad, apex with short and curved tip. Seeds red, ovoid to ellipsoid-ovoid, ca. 10 × 6 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Aug-Nov. Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 500-1700 m. N and W Guangdong, NE and SE Guangxi, Guizhou, S and W Hunan, S Jiangxi, SE Yunnan [N Vietnam]. This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber.----from “Flora of China”