Magnolia sect. Macrophylla

Magnolia ashei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Magnoliales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Magnoliids Ordo: Magnoliales

Familia: Magnoliaceae
Subfamilia: Magnolioideae
Genus: Magnolia
Sectio: Magnolia sect. Macrophylla
Species: M. alejandrae – M. ashei – M. dealbata – M. macrophylla – M. mixteca – M. nuevoleonensis – M. rzedowskiana – M. vovidesii – M. zotictla

Name

Magnolia sect. Macrophylla Figlar & Noot. (2004)

• Type species: Magnolia macrophylla Michx.
  

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Metamagnolia Sima & S.G.Lu, Proc. Second Internat. Symp. Fam. Magnoliac. 66. (2012)
    

Note: 6/8 species according to Wang et al. (2020), Mexican botanists (see refs) prefer the above species circumscription and not the incorporation of Magnolia ashei and Magnolia dealbata in Magnolia macrophylla as varieties or subspecies.

References

• Figlar, R.B. & Nooteboom, H.P. 2004. Notes on Magnoliaceae IV. Blumea 49(1): 87–100. DOI: 10.3767/000651904X486214 Reference page. 
• García-Morales, L., Iamonico, D. & García-Jimenez, J. 2017. Nomenclatural remarks on Magnolia sect. Macrophylla (Magnoliaceae), with description of a new species from North America (Tamaulipas, Mexico) Phytotaxa 309(3): 239. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.309.3.4 Reference page. 
• Sanchez-Gonzalez, A., Gutierrez-Lozano, M., Yescas, R.D., Hernandez-Alvarez, A.G., Ortega-Pena, A.S. & Vazquez-Garcia, J.A. 2021. Magnolia zotictla (Magnolia sect. Macrophylla, Magnoliaceae): a new species from the southern Sierra Madre Oriental, México. Phytotaxa 513(4): 271-281. DOI: 10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.513.4.1 PDF Reference page. 
• Vázquez-García J.A., Domínguez-Yescas R., Velazco-Macías C., Shalisko V. & Merino-Santi R.E. 2016. Magnolia nuevoleonensis sp. nov. (Magnoliaceae) from northeastern Mexico and a key to species of section Macrophylla. Nordic Journal of Botany 34: 48–53. DOI: 10.1111/njb.00800 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Vazquez-Garcia, J.A., Yescas, R.D., Luna-Vega, I., Rodriguez-Ramirez, E.C. & Rodriguez-Perez, C.}} 2021. Corncob flower, Magnolia mixteca (M. sect. Macrophylla, Magnoliaceae) a new species endemic to the Alto Balsas Basin (Baja Mixteca), in the Pacific slopes of Oaxaca, Mexico. Phytotaxa 522(3): 200-210. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.3 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Wang, Y.B., Liu, B.B., Nie, Z.L., Chen, H.F., Chen, F.J., Figlar, R.B. & Wen, J. 2020. Major clades and a revised classification of Magnolia and Magnoliaceae based on whole plastid genome sequences via genome skimming. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 58(5): 673–695. DOI: 10.1111/jse.12588 Reference page.