目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子1份; DNA材料4份; DNA2份;

• 科:木兰科    Magnoliaceae
• 属:木莲属    Manglietia
• 种:香木莲   Manglietia aromatica

2. Manglietia aromatica Dandy, J. Bot. 69: 231. 1931. 香木莲 xiang mu lian Magnolia aromatica (Dandy) V. S. Kumar; Paramanglietia aromatica (Dandy) Hu & W. C. Cheng.Trees, to 35 m tall, to 1.2 m d.b.h., glabrous except vegetative buds white appressed pubescent, aromatic. Bark gray and smooth. Young twigs pale green; terminal buds ellipsoid, ca. 3 × 1.2 cm. Stipular scar 1/4-1/3 as long as petiole. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm; leaf blade narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, 15-19 × 6-7 cm, thinly leathery, lower ca. 1/3 gradually tapered, secondary veins 12-16 on each side of midvein, reticulate veins sparse and conspicuously prominent on both surfaces when dry, base slightly decurrent, apex shortly acuminate to acuminate. Peduncle strong, 10-15 × 6-8 mm in fruit; bract scar 1, 5-7 mm basal to tepals. Tepals 11 or 12, in 4 whorls of 3, white; outer 3 tepals obovate-oblong, 7-11 × 3.5-5 cm, nearly leathery; tepals of inner whorls obovate-spoon-shaped, 9-11.5 × 4-5.5 cm, fleshy, base clawed. Stamens ca. 100, 1.5-1.8 cm. Carpels glabrous. Fruit red when fresh, subglobose to ovoid, 7-8 cm in diam.; mature carpels dehiscing along ventral and then dorsal sutures. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 38.Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 900-1600 m. SW Guangxi, Guizhou, SE Yunnan [Vietnam].【引自：Flora of China】

乔木，高达35米，胸径1.2米，树皮灰色，光滑；新枝淡绿色，除芽被白色平伏毛外全株无毛，各部揉碎有芳香；顶芽椭圆柱形，长约3厘米，直径约 1.2厘米。叶薄革质，倒披针状长圆形，倒披针形，长15-19厘米，宽6-7厘米，先端短渐尖或渐尖，1/3以下渐狭至基部稍下延，侧脉每边12-16条，网脉稀疏，干时两面网脉明显凸起；叶柄长1.5-2.5厘米，托叶痕长为叶柄的1/4-1/3。花梗粗壮，果时长1-1.5厘米，直径0.6-0.8厘米，苞片脱落痕1，距花下约5-7毫米；花被片白色，11-12片，4轮排列，每轮3片，外轮3片，近革质，倒卵状长圆形，长7-11厘米，宽3.5-5厘米，内数轮厚肉质，倒卵状匙形，基部成爪，长9-11.5厘米，宽4-5.5厘米；雄蕊约100枚，长1.5-1.8厘米，花药长0.7-1厘米，药隔伸出长2毫米的尖头；雌蕊群卵球形，长1.8-2.4厘米，心皮无毛。聚合果鲜红色，近球形或卵状球形，直径7-8厘米，成熟蓇葖沿腹缝及背缝开裂。花期5-6月，果期9-10月。【引自：中国植物志】