Magnoliaceae

  Magnoliaceae, dicotyledonous plants, about 15 genera, 250 species, distributed in North and South America and Asia north of the Tropic of Capricorn south-east and south tropical and subtropical to temperate region, China has 11 genera and about 100 species, most of the production south-west, except for the ornamental, the wood is good, a few medicine. Shrub to tree; Leaves alternate, usually entire, rarely split; stipules large, surrounded with buds, early fall; flowers large, solitary, axillary or terminal, gender, very few single sex; sepal and petals are similar, series; stamens many, separation; carpel number at least a majority; from the students, arranged in a spiral extension of the receptacle (axial), the few at the time the results combined into one; ovules 2-14; Fruit dry or fleshy, back seam or abdominal seam crack, crack or split thin Week. Our mainly are: Liriodendron, Magnolia, Manglietia, Michelia, Parakmeria, Parakmeria, Paramichelia so.