Magnolia sinoconifera (F.N. Wei) 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 sinoconifera (F.N. Wei) C.B. Callaghan & S.K. Png comb. nov.

Basionym.

Manglietia sinoconifera F.N. Wei. In: Guihaia 13(1): 5, fig. s.n. (1993).

Chinese name.

那坡木莲 meaning "Napo manglietia"

Type.

CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Guilin Botanical Garden (cultivated; introduced from Napo County, W Guangxi), 3 June 1991, Wei Fa-nan 1910 (holotype: IBK n.v.).

Manglietia dandyi (Gagnep.) Dandy. In: Xia et al. (2008: 54), p.p. quoad syn.? Manglietia sinoconifera F.N. Wei.

Note 1.

The holotype specimen of Manglietia sinoconifera cannot be found at IBK (Xu Wei-bin, pers. comm., July 2019).

Note 2.

Some of the features distinguishing Manglietia sinoconifera from M. dandyi , under which it is questionably placed as conspecific in Flora of China due to uncertainty over its status (because the holotype could not be sighted), are listed in Table 9 below. M. sinoconifera (to 10 m) also does not key out with the description for the large-leaved M. megaphylla Hu & W.C. Cheng (1951), a tree to 40m ( Liu et al 2004), with which it shares synonymy under M. dandyi in Flora of China. Manglietia sinoconifera is recognised as a genuine species in Yang et al. (2016: 213-214), wherein its introduction to Guilin Botanical Garden from Napo County is recorded as 1973 (18 years earlier than stated in the protologue).