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|accepted_name=Magnolia ashei
|accepted_authority=Weatherby
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=28: 35. 1926
|year=1926
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|common_names=Ashe's magnolia
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei
|authority=(Weatherby) Spongberg
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|name=Magnolia macrophylla var. ashei
|authority=(Weatherby) D.L. Johnson
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|hierarchy=Magnoliaceae;Magnolia;Magnolia ashei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Magnoliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Magnolia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Magnolia ashei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, often multitrunked, to 10(-12) m. <b>Bark</b> dark gray, smooth. <b>Pith</b> homogeneous. <b>Twigs</b> and foliar buds silky-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> crowded in terminal whorl-like clusters; stipules 6-8 × 3-4 cm, abaxially pilose, glandular. <b>Leaf</b> blade broadly elliptic to obovate-oblong, (17-)25-46(-56) × (10-)15-30(-40) cm, base truncate to deeply cordate or auriculate, apex acute to short-acuminate; surfaces abaxially chalky white or pale green to glaucous, pilose, adaxially deep green, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> solitary or often in pairs on adjacent twigs, fragrant, 15-38(-50) cm across; spathaceous bracts 2, outer bract abaxially rusty gray, inner bract glabrous; tepals creamy white, glandular, innermost whorl purple-blotched at base, outermost segments strongly reflexed, greenish; stamens 170-350, 13-20 mm; filaments white; pistils 20-50. <b>Follicetums</b> cylindric to nearly ovoid, 2.5-6.5 × 1.5-4 cm; follicles short-beaked, distally appressed silky-pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> lenticular to somewhat globose, 8-10 mm, aril orange-red. <b>2n</b>=38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Woodlands, ravines, and bluffs, coastal plain
|elevation=0-50m
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Magnolia ashei</i>, the rarest species of <i>Magnolia</i> in the flora, is limited to six counties in the Florida panhandle; it is in danger of extirpation because of habitat disturbance. <i>Magnolia ashei</i> differs from <i>M. macrophylla</i> in being a smaller, often multitrunked tree with smaller leaves, fewer stamens and pistils, smaller seeds, smaller stipules, filiform trichomes, and smaller, nearly glabrous, cylindric follicetums. The flowers are often borne in pairs. <i>Magnolia ashei</i> flowers at an early age (three to four years from seed); it is a desirable small tree in cultivation.</p>
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name=Magnolia ashei
|author=
|authority=Weatherby
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei;Magnolia macrophylla var. ashei
|basionyms=
|family=Magnoliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Woodlands, ravines, and bluffs, coastal plain
|elevation=0-50m
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1926
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Magnolia
|species=Magnolia ashei
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