Magnolia ernestii Figlar

Yellow Lily-tree

Magnoliaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast

No habitat climate

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Summary

Magnolia ernestii, synonym Michelia wilsonii, the yellow lily-tree, is a species of plant in the family Magnoliaceae. It is endemic to China. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Magnolia ernestii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in South America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in eastern North America.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Magnolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 19 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 19 of the 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).

Map marker29.496, 103.399 · in the densest population, 17 records (89% of those in range)

Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 47 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

How this section is made

The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 19 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Magnolia 103 in the reference

Magnolia acuminata Cucumber-tree Photo: CC BY, Evan M. Raskin Magnolia albosericea Magnoliaceae

Magnolia amoena Tianmu magnolia Photo: CC BY-SA, William (Ned) Friedman Magnolia annamensis Magnoliaceae

Magnolia ashei Ashe's magnolia Photo: CC BY, mfeaver Magnolia baillonii Magnoliaceae Magnolia balansae Magnoliaceae

Magnolia biondii Magnoliaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot

Magnolia campbellii Campbell's Magnolia Photo: CC BY, Barry Stewart

Magnolia caricifragrans Magnoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch Uribe

Magnolia cavaleriei Magnoliaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot

Magnolia champaca Champak Photo: CC BY, Karthik Thrikkadeeri all 104 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Michelia wilsonii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Magnoliaceae

Described by

Figlar

Native to

China South-Central, China Southeast

Wild records

19 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22

GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22

WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04

GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2219 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22

OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.