谢瑞山茶 Camellia cherryana OrelCamellia cherryana

Camellia cherryana Orel in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 49: 251 (2012). TYPE: Peoples Republic of China, Sichuan Prov., steep, forested ridge of unnamed mountain on Sichuan-Yunnan border, ca. 125 km northwest of Kunming, 19 Nov. 1992, R. Cherry 912 (holotype NSW, isotype SYS).

 It has variably sized, slightly coriaceous, elliptic to lanceolate leaves with a strongly acuminate apex and cuneate base; the adaxial leaf surface is glabrous and slightly pitted, mid-green and shiny, the abaxial leaf surface is sparsely pubescent, light green and shiny; the flowers are solitary, pedicellate, 5–7 cm in diam.; the corolla is two-whorled, white and the petals are soft, opaque to translucent, orbicular or almost orbicular, widely reflexed with undulate margins; the filaments are glabrous, up to 1.5 cm long, but mostly shorter; the styles are three, brown, densely pubescent, 1–1.2 cm long, basally joined but otherwise free; and the stigma is of the same colour, indistinct. The morphological evidence supports a placement in Camellia sect. Heterogena.

谢瑞山茶 Camellia cherryana Orel in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 49: 251 (2012)。模式标本产中国四川。

 它的叶片大小不一，略带刚毛，椭圆形至披针形，先端强烈渐尖，基部楔形；叶正面无毛，略有凹痕，中绿色，有光泽，叶背面疏生短柔毛，浅绿色，有光泽；花单生，有花梗，直径 5-7 厘米；花冠两轮，白色，花瓣柔软，不透明，半透明，圆形或几乎圆形，宽反折，边缘波状；花丝是白色的。 花冠两轮，白色，花瓣柔软，不透明至半透明，圆形或几乎圆形，宽反折，边缘波状；花丝无毛，长达 1.5 厘米，但大部分较短；花柱三枚，棕色，密被短柔毛，长 1-1.2 厘米，基部连接，其他部分游离；柱头同色。形态学证据支持将其归入sect. Heterogena