Camellia fraterna Hance

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Young branches purplish brown, glabrous; year-old branchlets with indumentum ± persistent; current year branchlets densely spreading villous and hirsute. Petiole 3-5 mm, villous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-8 × (1.5-)2-3.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely appressed villous, adaxially dark green, shiny, and hirtellous along midvein, midvein abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein, abaxially slightly raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex bluntly acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, 2.5-4 cm in diam. Pedicel 3-4 mm, thick, villous; bracteoles 4 or 5, covering pedicel, ovate, 1-2 mm, outside densely yellowish brown villous. Calyx cupular, 4-5 mm; lobes 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-3.5 mm, outside densely yellowish brown villous, inside yellow sericeous. Petals 5 or 6, white or sometimes pale pink, obovate to broadly obovate, 2-2.5 cm, basally connate for 3-5 mm, outside glabrous or puberulent toward apex. Stamens 1.5-2 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 0.8-1.2 cm. Ovary ovoid, 1-2 mm, glabrous, 3-loculed; style 1.4-1.8 cm, apically 3-parted for 1-2 mm. Capsule globose, 1.5-2 cm in diam., 1-loculed with l seed; pericarp thinly leathery. Seed chestnut brown, globose, 1.3-1.8 cm in diam. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 90*.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.5 - 4.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.7
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -12
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Camellia fraterna world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Camellia fraterna threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:828517-1
WFO ID wfo-0000582352
COL ID 68WLM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Camellia fraterna Thea fraterna Theopsis fraterna