Magnolia zenii
| Zen magnolia | |
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| August foliage San Francisco Botanical Garden, 2006 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Magnoliaceae |
| Genus: | Magnolia |
| Subgenus: | M. subg. Yulania |
| Section: | M. sect. Yulania subsect. Yulania |
| Species: | M. zenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Magnolia zenii Cheng | |
Magnolia zenii is a species of plant in the Magnoliaceae family. It is endemic to China.
Listed as “critically endangered,” there were only a few dozen left of these found when the variety was first discovered in China in 1931 according to MEG McCONAHEY writing in THE PRESS DEMOCRAT.
Sources
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Magnolia zenii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.
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