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Magnolia nipponica
Magnolia nipponica Tanai J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Ser. 4, Geol., 11(2): 332. 20 Mar 1961
- Name
- Magnolia nipponica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Magnolia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Tanai T.
- Publication
- Neogene floral change in Japan [1961/3]
- Journal
- Journal of the Faculty of Science of the Hokkaido University
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 332
- Year
- 1961
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Magnolia
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Yoshioka, Fukushima-cho, Matsumae-gun, Hokkaido, Japan
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Japanese Archipelago)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Nature and Science, Palaeobotany Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Repository Number
- UHR-15223
- Diagnosis
- Leaves medium in size, obovate to elliptical in shape, 7.5 to 11 cm long and 4,O to 6.0 cm wide; base cuneate to obtusely cuneate; apex acute or obtusely pointed; midrib stout, nearly straight; secondary nerves 10 to 12 pairs, subopposite to subalternate, diverging from the midrib at angles of 45 to 60 degrees, gently curving up, bTanching near the margin, forrr}ing marginal loops, sometimes a few slender Iaterals leaving out from the midrib among main seeondaries: tertiaries thin, irregularly percurrent; nervilles finely retieulate, forming polygonal meshes; margin entire; petiole missing; texture thin, membranaceous.
