The fam!ly Magnoliaceae is one of the most primitive family of Angiosperms and play a key role in forming concepts of the first flowers. Nowadays. it consists of ca. more than 300 species, distributed in tropical and temperate regions of Southeast Asia and Latin America. Many species are using for multipurposes. Despite the Magnoliaceae's role in science and reality, taxonomic treatment in the family, especially in subfamily Magnolioideae has been controversial regarding the disposition of tribes, genera, and sections. This paper is compiled to show a view on systematic and taxanomic Magnoliaceae. According to the research, Magnolia was named to honor the French botanist Pierre Magnol (1638-1715) and ca. 20 literatures related to the systematics of Magnoliaceae are listed and analyzed. It is clear that two subfamilies Magnolioideae and Liriodendroideae should be separated. Two trends in systematics of the Magnolioideae are that (1) Magnolioideae is divided into numbers of genera and that (2) all previous genera of Magnolioideae are immersed into one genus Magnolia.