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4. Michelia champaca L.wfo-0000242718

Sp. Pl.: 536. 1753; Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1: 42. 1872; King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 3: 216. t. 64. 1891; Fin. & Gagnep. in Fl. Gén). I.-C. 1: 38. 1907; Gagnep. in Fl. Gén. I.-C. Suppl. 1: 47. 1938; Craib, Fl. Siam. En. 1: 26. 1925 (excl. Schomburghk 167).

Accepted Name : Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre
Fl. Forest. Cochinch. t. 3. 1880.

Description : Medium-sized to large tree, to 35 m tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 10–20(–28) by 4–9(–11) cm; apex acute or acuminate; base acute to rounded; glabrescent or thinly appressed-hairy on both surfaces; lateral veins 16–20 pairs, slightly elevated beneath; petiole 2–4 cm long, appressed-hairy, with stipular scars to above the middle. Flower-buds fusiform, 3–4 cm long; peduncle 1–2 cm long. Tepals orange-yellow, outer ones oblanceolate, 4–4.5 by 1–1.5, inner ones narrower. Stamens 0.8–0.9 cm long. Gynoecium 1.5–2 cm long, glabrous. Fruiting carpels free, laxly arranged in a cluster, 6–9 cm long, often curved; individual carpels woody, ovoid or subglobose, 1–2 cm long.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Suthep); PENINSULAR: Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat (Pa Khong Phy, Khao Pho Kam), Yala (Betong), Trang.

Distribution : India, Nepal, Burma, Indochina and SW China. Also cultivated in many warm parts of the World (type a cultivated plant from Ceylon).

Ecology : In tropical evergreen forests or at the edge of forests at low altitudes (200–1,000 m).

Vernacular : Champa (จำปา)(Central); champi pa (จำปีป่า)(Peninsular).