Magnolia carsonii Dandy ex Noot.

Shrub or tree to 60 m high and 70 cm diam. Twigs glabrous or hairy in innovations with apical buds glabrous or hairy. Leaves glabrous, thin or thick coriaceous, 4.5-16 by 2.5-8 cm. Petiole 6 to 18 mm. Brachyblast glabrous or hairy, 2-5 mm long. Outer tepals 3(-4), 15-40 mm long; inner tepals 6. Stamens c. 15-30, 7-12 mm long with a connective appendage of 1-3 mm long. Fruit sessile or gynopodium to 5 mm long, carpels 1-15, glabrous; scar of perianth and stamens 2-3 mm along the torus.