Talauma is a section of the genus Magnolia in the family Magnoliaceae.

It contains only New World species,[1] and is native to Mexico, Panama, Brazil, and the West Indies.

[2] In 1879, Antoine de Jussieu created the genus Talauma for the species Magnolia plumieri (now a synonym of Magnolia dodecapetala).

In 1866, Henri Baillon reduced the genus to a section of Magnolia, M. sect.

The taxon has also been treated as a subgenus and as a subsection of Magnolia.