| Magnolia amazonica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Magnoliaceae |
| Genus: | Magnolia |
| Species: | M. rimachii |
| Binomial name | |
| Magnolia rimachii (Lozano) Govaerts. |
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Magnolia rimachii is a small to medium sized tree of the Magnoliaceae family commonly reaching 8 to 15 m high. It is found in the western lowland Amazon Basin tropical forest, in Ecuador and Peru, between 140–500 metres (460–1,600 ft) in elevation.
Magnolia rimachii has chartaceous elliptic leaves 12 – 26 cm long and 5 – 10 cm broad; flowers are fragrant and can have 6 or 7 obovate petals 2 - 4.5 cm long and 1 – 2 cm wide. The elliptic fruit can be ca. 3.5 cm long.
Lozano-Contreras, G. Dugandiodendron y Talauma (Magnoliaceae) en el Neotropico. Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas. Bogotá. 1994