Camellia indochinensis Merr.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Young branches yellowish brown; current year branchlets purplish brown, slender, glabrous. Petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous, adaxially grooved; leaf blade elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblong-ovate, 6-10.5 × (2.5-)3-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green, brown glandular punctate, and becoming glaucescent when dry, adaxially dark green and becoming grayish green when dry, both surfaces glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 6 or 7 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, reticulate veins abaxially slightly raised and adaxially visible, base broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary, 1-3.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 3-13 mm, slender; bracteoles 5 or 6, not covering pedicel, semiorbicular to broadly ovate, 0.5-1.5 × 1-2.5 mm, glabrous or outside farinose-puberulent, margin ciliolate. Sepals 5, orbicular, 2-3 mm, concave, glabrous or outside farinose-puberulent, margin ciliolate. Petals 8 or 9, pale yellow to yellowish white; outer 3 or 4 petals suborbicular, 5-7 × 4-6 mm; inner petals obovate to oblong, 8-15 × 5-6 mm, basally connate for ca. 2 mm. Stamens 8-10 mm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 3-4 mm. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous; styles 3, distinct, ca. 1 cm. Capsule oblate, (2 or)3-coccal, 1-1.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm; pericarp 1-1.5 mm thick. Seeds hemispherical, brown, glabrous. Fl. Dec-Jan, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Images

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Distribution

Camellia indochinensis world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Camellia indochinensis threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:829923-1
WFO ID wfo-0000582399
COL ID Q9K5
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Synonyms

Camellia indochinensis Camellia limonia Camellia parvipetala Thea indochinensis Camellia limonia f. obovata Camellia indochinensis var. indochinensis

Lower taxons

Camellia indochinensis var. tunghinensis