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Manglietia garrettii Craib
Common name: Manglietia
Thai Local Name: Montha-Doi, Montha-Daeng
Partly deciduous tree, up to 25 m high, with smooth, grayish bark. Leaf 18-30
× 8-12 cm, narrowly elliptic with ± tapering tip and blunt or slightly pointed base.
Mature leaves dark green above, grayish-green below, smooth or nearly so, 15-25
pairs of side veins. Stalks 3-5 cm, swollen at base, densely brown-hairy especially
when young, stipule scar ½ of total length. Flower up to 18 cm across, dark pinkpurple,
buds narrowly ovoid, structurally very similar to Magnolia. Fruit 4-8 cm,
ovoid, not breaking up (Gardner et al., 2000).
Michelia baillonii (Pierre) Fin. & Gagnep.
Common name: Michelia.
Thai Local name: Cham-pee-pa.
The genus is a briefly deciduous tree, up to 40 m high, common in hill
evergreen forest throughout northern Thailand. Leaf 15-22 × 5-8 cm, narrowly elliptic
or oblong, pointed or tapering at both ends. Buds narrow and pointed, young leaves
with dense silvery-silkys hairs, mature leave smooth or nearly so. 10-15 pairs of side
viens with dense network of smaller ones. Stalks 2.5-3.5 cm, stipule scar less than ½
of total length. Flower white, 12-18 sepals/petals, outer ones lanceolate, 2-2.5 × 0.5
cm, inner ones linear, stamens 7-8 mm, carpels densely grey-hairy. Fruit 5-8 cm,
yellow-green with pale spots, irregularly knobbly, breaking up when mature, leaving
characteristic skeletal husks which often remain on the tree throughout the year. Seeds
bright red (Gardner et al., 2000).