"Plant feature";"Michelia platypetala Hand-Mazz.";"Michelia cavaleriei Finet & Gagnep." "life form";"medium-sized tree to 20 m";"small-sized tree 7–10 metres" "indumentum of branchlets";"rufous sericeous";"silver-grey or rufous appressed pilose¶" "indumentum of buds";"rufous sericeous";"silver-grey or rufous appressed pilose¶" "leaf shape";"oblong or elliptic-oblong";"narrowly oblong or narrowly oblanceolate-oblong¶" "leaf dimensions";"11–18(–20) × 4–6(–7) cm (12–17 × 4.5–6.5 cm†)";"10–20 × 3.5–6.5 cm¶ (8–21 × 2.5–5 cm#)" "leaf apex";"acuminate or abruptly narrowed short-acuminate";"acuminate or short-acute¶" "leaf base";"broadly cuneate or obtuse";"cuneate or broadly cuneate¶" "leaf indumentum abaxially";"greyish-white appressed puberulent or rufous appressed hairs";"silver-grey or rufous pilose, appressed when young¶" "lateral leaf veins";"8–14 pairs";"11–15 pairs§" "petiole length";"2–3 cm†";"2 cm (0.7–1.5 cm#)" "pedicel (peduncle) length";"0.5–2 cm";"1.5–2.5 cm§" "bract scar number";2;2–3 "tepal number and shape";"9 (9–11†), obovate-elliptic or elliptic";"ca. 12 (10–12#): obovate-elliptic¶" "tepal length (outer 3)";"5–7 cm";"2.5 cm (2.5–4 cm¶)" "stamen / anther length";"ca. 1 cm / ca. 6 mm";"1.2–1.4 cm / ca. 8 mm§" "gynoecium shape, length and indumentum";"cylindric, 6–8 mm, grey or golden puberulent";"narrowly ovoid, ca.10 mm, glabrous except for few bristly hairs towards apex of the carpels‡" "gynophore length";"ca. 5 mm";"ca. 4 mm§" "number of ovules";"ca. 8 in each immature carpel";"2 in each immature carpel" "fruit aggregate length";"5–15 cm";"5–10 cm¶" "mature carpels shape and size";"ellipsoid, rarely globose or ovoid, 1.5–2(–2.5) × 1–1.5 cm";"obovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5–2 cm long§" "flowering period";March–April;March§