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Magnoliaceae

Magnolia

Magnolia coco (Lour.) DC.

First published in Syst. Nat. 1: 459 (1817)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is S. China to N. Vietnam, Taiwan. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

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Native to:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Vietnam

Homotypic Synonyms

Lirianthe coco (Lour.) N.H.Xia & C.Y.Wu in Fl. China 7: 64 (2008)
Liriodendron coco Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 347 (1790)
Talauma coco (Lour.) Merr. in Sp. Blancoan.: 12 (1918)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Gwillimia indica Rottler ex DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 458 (1817)
Liriopsis pumila Spach ex Baill. in Adansonia 7: 4 (1866)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Heerdegen, B. & Eisenhut, R. (2019). Magnolien und Tulpenbäume (Magnoliaceae): 1-319. BoD Verlag.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0