Magnolia

Magnolia
Temporal range:
Magnolia sieboldii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Magnoliaceae
Genus: Magnolia
L.
Type species
Magnolia virginiana
L.
Subgenera
  • Magnolia
  • Yulania
  • Gynopodium
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Alcimandra Dandy
    • Aromadendron Blume
    • Blumia Nees ex Blume
    • Buergeria Siebold & Zucc.
    • Champaca Adans.
    • Dugandiodendron Lozano
    • Elmerrillia Dandy
    • Guillimia Rchb.
    • Gwillimia Rottler ex DC.
    • Houpoea N.H.Xia & C.Y.Wu
    • Kmeria Dandy
    • Kobus Kaempf. ex Salisb.
    • Lassonia Buc'hoz
    • Lirianthe Spach
    • Liriopsis Spach
    • Manglietia Blume
    • Manglietiastrum Y.W.Law
    • Metamagnolia Sima & S.G.Lu
    • Michelia L.
    • Micheliopsis H.Keng
    • Oyama (Nakai) N.H.Xia & C.Y.Wu
    • Pachylarnax Dandy
    • Parakmeria Hu & W.C.Cheng
    • Paramagnolia Sima & S.G.Lu
    • Paramanglietia Hu & W.C.Cheng
    • Paramichelia Hu
    • Sampacca Kuntze
    • Santanderia Cespedes ex Triana & Planch.
    • Sinomanglietia Z.X.Yu
    • Sphenocarpus Wall.
    • Svenhedinia Urb.
    • Talauma A.Juss.
    • Tsoongiodendron Chun
    • Tulipastrum Spach
    • Woonyoungia Y.W.Law
    • Yulania Spach

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340[a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.

Magnolia is an ancient genus that appeared before bees evolved.[when?][citation needed] They are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles instead.[2] Fossilized specimens of M. acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and fossils of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae date to 95 million years ago.[3] Another aspect of Magnolia considered to represent an ancestral state is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals; the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called tepals rather than distinct sepals and petals. Magnolia shares the tepal characteristic with several other flowering plants near the base of the flowering plant lineage, such as Amborella and Nymphaea (as well as with many more recently derived plants, such as Lilium).

  1. ^ "Magnolia Plum. ex L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  2. ^ Peigler, Richard (1988). "A review of pollination of Magnolias by beetles, with a collecting survey made in the Carolinas" (PDF). Magnolia. 24 (45): 1–7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
  3. ^ Crane, P.R. (1988). "The phylogenetic position and fossil history of the Magnoliaceae". In Hunt, David R. (ed.). Magnolias and their allies: Proceedings of an International Symposium, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, U.K., 12-13 April 1996. Milbourne Port. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-9517234-8-7. OCLC 40781614.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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