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).

The distinguishing features of Manglietia sinoconifera are cited from Wei (1993) supplemented by Yang et al. (2016: 214)† and those of M. dandyi from Gagnepain (1939 as Magnolia dandyi) supplemented by Chen and Nooteboom (1993: 1037)‡.