狭叶含笑 xia ye han xiao

Magnolia angustioblonga (Y. W. Law & Y. F. Wu) Figlar.

Trees, to 4 m, glossy, with appressed indument. Twigs black; buds densely brown villous. Stipules free from petiole. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, without a stipular scar; leaf blade narrowly oblong, 6.5-10 × 1.5-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially grayish green and villous, adaxially deep green, midvein abaxially prominent, secondary veins inconspicuous, reticulate veins dense and conspicuous when dry, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex obtuse. Brachyblasts pilose. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls, white, oblanceolate; outer 3 tepals 1.8-2 × 0.4-0.5 cm; inner 3 tepals 1.4-1.6 cm. Stamens 1.1-1.5 cm; connective exserted and forming a mucro; anthers 6-10 mm. Gynophore ca. 3 mm; gynoecium embedded in androecium, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm; carpels brown puberulous. Fruit not seen. Fl. Apr.

● Forests; ca. 1000 m. Guizhou (Libo).