Camellia melliana Hand.-mazz.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Theaceae > Camellia

Characteristics

Shrubs 1-1.7 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; year-old branchlets with indumentum ± persistent; current year branchlets slender, densely spreading villous. Petiole 1-2 mm, densely villous; leaf blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5(-6.5) × 1-1.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely villous with indumentum more dense along midvein, adaxially dark green and hirtellous along midvein, base rounded, margin undulate-denticulate, apex bluntly acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 2-3 mm; bracteoles 4, ovate, 0.5-1.5 mm, outside villous. Sepals 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-2.5 mm, outside villous, inside glabrous. Petals 5 or 6, white, obovate, 7-12 × 6-10 mm, outside farinose-puberulent, basally connate for 1-3 mm, apex rounded. Stamens 7-10 mm; outer filament whorl basally connate for 4-7 mm, distinct part densely white villous. Ovary yellow tomentose, 3-loculed; style 8-10 mm, densely pubescent, apically 3-parted for ca. 1 mm and glabrous. Capsule subglobose, 1-1.2 × 0.9-1 cm, 1-loculed with 1 seed, apex shortly conic; pericarp thin; columella abortive. Seed brown, subglobose. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Camellia melliana world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Camellia melliana threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:829937-1
WFO ID wfo-0000582511
COL ID Q9ML
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Synonyms

Camellia melliana Thea melliana