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3. Talauma hodgsonii Hook.f. & Thomsonwfo-0000320611

Fl. Ind. 1: 74. 1855 Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1: 40. 1872: King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 3: 204. t. 47. 1891; Craib, Fl. Siam. En. 1: 24. 1925; Gagnep. in Fl. Gén. I.-C. Suppl. 1: 31. 1938 (excl. Laos).

Accepted Name : Magnolia hodgsonii (Hook.f. & Thomson) H.Keng
Gard. Bull. Singapore 31: 129. 1978.

Description : Small to medium-sized tree, 10–15 m tall. Leaves thin-coriaceous, narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, 19–45 by 6.5–12(–16) cm; apex acute or obtuse; base narrowly cuneate: lateral veins 9–12(–20) pairs, raised beneath; glabrous on both surfaces, except the midrib which is adpressed hairy; margin flat or wavy; petiole 4.5–5.5(–8.5) cm long, glabrous or verrucose, pulvinate at the base. Flower-buds subglobose, 3–4 cm across; spathaceous bract purple; peduncle stout, 1.5–2 cm long. Tepals creamy white, thick and succulent, outer ones 5–7 by 2.5–4 cm; inner ones narrower. Stamens 1.5–2 cm long, the connective shortly produced. Gynoecium ovoid or top-shaped, glabrous. Fruiting carpels forming an ovoid or ellipsoid mass, 10–15 by 3.5–5 cm: individual carpels 2.5 cm long.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Suthep), Phichit (Huai Krasa).

Distribution : Nepal, Bhutan, NE India (type), Burma.

Ecology : In moist or dry-evergreen forests, on steep slope or by steam, at low to medium altitudes (660–1,300 m).

Vernacular : Tong khaeng (ดองแข็ง), buntha (บุนทา), buntha doi (บุนทาดอย), buntha luang (บุนทาหลวง).