FIGURE 2. Magnolia vargasiana A in Magnolia vargasiana (Magnoliaceae), a new Andean species and a key to Ecuadorian species of subsection Talauma, with notes on its pollination biology

FIGURE 2. Magnolia vargasiana A. Yajaira Malucín, student at Universidad Estatal Amazónica, holding a flower bud, with sepals all the way down in day one (male phase) at 9:16 hrs, where flea beetles had just overnighted and are about to leave the flower in the afternoon. With dense "bosque siempreverde montano" in the background. B. Foliage. C. Detaching stipule. D. Branch with flower bud including second hypsophyll. E. First hypsophyll. F. Flower bud in day 0 (0D, female phase), without hypsophylls. G. Flea beetles (Tribe Alticini, Chrysomelidae) covered with pollen. (Photographs: B, C & E by Fausto Recalde, from the holotype; A, D, F & G by Lou Jost, from Merino-Santi et al. s.n., ECUAMZ, IBUG).