Magnolia celaquensis

Trees 15 – 23 m tall; 77 cm dbh. Perular scale 17.0 – 19.0 × 4.0 – 4.3 mm, green, pubescent apically. Stipules 10.0 – 11.0 × 0.7 – 0.9 cm, brownish to reddish at maturity, free from petiole, pubescent. Leaves petiolate, 2.0 – 2.8 × 0.2 – 0.3 cm, without a stipular scar, stout, pubescent, laminas 12.0 – 16.9 × 4.9 – 6.6 cm, oblanceolate, the midvein adaxially sunken and abaxially prominent, densely golden hairy, secondary veins adaxially inconspicuous, peduncles 3.3 – 3.9 × 0.7 – 0.8 cm, glabrous. Flower bud broadly ellipsoid 5.9 – 6.1 × 4.1 – 4.2 cm, acute apically, truncate basally, spathaceous bracts 2, 2.6 – 3.9 × 2.0 – 2.5 cm, broadly ellipsoid, densely covered with reddish brown hairs, sepals 3, creamy white, (5.0 –) 6.0 – 6.1 × 2.9 – 3.0 cm, cochleate, obtuse apically, base truncate, 7.9 – 8.6 mm wide, outer petals 3, creamy white, 5.7 – 5.9 × 2.8 – 3.5 cm, broadly and deeply cochleate, revolute, wider in the upper third, gradually narrowing toward the claw, slightly apiculate apically, base truncate, 5.3 – 5.6 mm wide, inner petals 3, creamy white, 3.8 – 4.2 × 1.8 – 2.5 cm, broadly and deeply cochleate and revolute, wider in the upper third, gradually narrowing toward the claw, slightly apiculate apically, base truncate, 2.5 – 3.8 mm wide, gynoecium narrowly ellipsoid, yellowish green at first, the stigmas curled, brownish orange, carpels 20 – 25, glabrous, green, stamens 80 – 88 on a wine-red staminal axis. Fruit 6.0 – 6.3 × 3.8 – 3.9 cm, oblongoid, follicles 2.4 – 3.0 × 9.0 – 10.0 cm, broadly open, beaks curled, twisted, dorsally rugose, turning from green to blackish, seeds flattened, disk-like, red-pinkish.