The name Magnolia odoratissima Y. W. Law & R. Z. Zhou is reinstated as legitimate, because the supposed earlier homonym M. odoratissima Reinw. ex Blume has never been validly published. Therefore, later publication of the new name M. lawiana Sima & H. Yu to replace Magnolia odoratissima Y. W. Law & R. Z. Zhou is nomenclaturally superfluous.