Magnolia pubipetala (Q.W. Zeng) C.B. Callaghan & S.K. Png, 2020

Callaghan, Christopher B. & Png, Siak K., 2020, Twenty-six additional new combinations in the Magnolia (Magnoliaceae) of China and Vietnam, PhytoKeys 146, pp. 1-35 : 1

Magnolia pubipetala (Q.W. Zeng) C.B. Callaghan & S.K. Png comb. nov.

Basionym.

Manglietia pubipetala Q.W. Zeng. In: Q.W. Zeng et al., Pakistan J. Bot.(6): 1917, 1919 + 1918, fig. 1 (2007).

Chinese name.

毛瓣木莲 meaning "hairy-tepals manglietia" (this Chinese name is often erroneously applied to Manglietia rufibarbata which has glabrous tepals)

Type.

CHINA. Yunnan Province: Maguan County, Bazhai, evergreen broad-leaved forests, ca. 1500 m, 14 May 2002, Ren-zhang Zhou 0256 (holotype: IBSC online image!). Yunnan Province: Xichou County, Fadu, Hemawan, evergreen broad-leaved forests, ca. 1600 m, 2 May 1979, Gao Ting-xiang & Zhu Dai-qing 05 (paratype: IBSC n.v.). Yunnan Province: Kunming Botanical Garden, introduced 1987 from Yunnan Province’s Malipo County, Jingchang, evergreen broad-leaved forests, 1400 m, 3 May 2003, Zheng Qing-wen 67 (paratype: IBSC!).

holotype (IBSC): http://www.docin.com/p-1050989203.html ( Sima 2011: 313, photo 2-48).

Manglietia rufibarbata Dandy. In: Xia et al. (2008: 60), Sima and Lu (2009: 30) and Sima (2011: 68), each p.p. quoad syn. Manglietia pubipetala Q.W. Zeng.

Note.

Manglietia pubipetala Q.W. Zeng is considered as conspecific with M. rufibarbata Dandy by the above authors. However, M. pubipetala can be sufficiently differentiated from M. rufibarbata Dandy to justify its species status, as shown by the comparative morphological features included in Table 6 on the following page (adapted from Table 1 , Zeng et al. 2007). M. pubipetala is therefore transferred to Magnolia consistent with the past reduction of the remaining genera of subfamily Magnolioideae to the genus Magnolia .