木兰科 Magnoliaceae
含笑属 Michelia
乔木，高达20m。树皮薄、浅灰色或灰褐色；各部无毛，芽、嫩枝、叶下面、苞片均被白粉。叶革质，长圆状椭圆形，稀卵状椭圆形，长7-18cm，宽3.5-8.5cm，先端急尖或钝尖，基部楔形至近圆钝，上面深绿色，有光泽，下面灰绿色，常被白粉，叶柄上无托叶痕。花芳香，花被片9，白色，有时基部稍呈淡红色，外轮3片的倒卵形，长5-7cm，内两轮则渐狭小，近匙形；雄蕊长1.5-2.2cm，药隔伸出约2mm的尖头，花丝淡紫色；雌蕊群长1.5-1.8cm；雌蕊群柄长5-8mm，心皮狭卵圆形。聚合果穗状，长7-15cm，蓇葖长圆体形或卵圆形，顶端圆钝或具短突尖头，每蓇葖具种子2-3粒；种子斜卵形，红色。花期3月中下旬，果期9-10月。
杭州各区均有栽培，生于常绿阔叶林中。分布于安徽、福建、广东、广西、贵州、江西和湖南。
树形美观、枝繁叶茂，花极芳香，是优良的庭园绿化树种。
Magnolia maudiae (Dunn) Figlar; Michelia chingii W. C. Cheng. Trees, to 20 m tall, glabrous. Bark pale gray or grayish brown, thin. Young twigs, buds, leaf blade abaxial surfaces, and bracts white powdery. Petiole 1-3 cm, without a stipular scar; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to rarely ovate-elliptic, 7-18 × 3.5-8.5 cm, leathery, abaxially grayish green and glaucous, adaxially deep green and glossy, secondary veins 7-12 on each side of midvein, straight or slightly curved, and divaricate and netted, reticulate veins dense, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or obtuse, apex abruptly shortly acuminate to shortly acuminate and with an obtuse tip. Brachyblasts green, with 3 annular bract scars; spathaceous bracts pale brown, ca. 3 cm, thinly leathery. Flowers fragrant. Tepals 9, white but base slightly pale red; outer tepals obovate, 5-7 × 3.5-4 cm, base ca. 1 cm clawed, apex shortly acute; tepals of inner 2 whorls gradually narrowing, nearly spoon-shaped, apex acute. Stamens 1.5-2.2 cm; filaments pale purple, flat, ca. 4 mm; connective exserted and forming a 1-2 mm tip. Gynophore 5-8 mm; gynoecium 1.5-1.8 cm; carpels green, narrowly ovoid, 5-6 mm including style. Fruit 7-15 cm; mature carpels ellipsoid, obovoid, or ovoid, apex obtuse or abruptly mucronate. Seeds red, obliquely ovoid, ca. 10 × 5 mm, slightly compressed. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 38*. ● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 600-1500 m. S Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Hunan, S Zhejiang. This species is grown as an ornamental. It is used medicinally and for timber.----from “Flora of China”