薄叶金花茶 Camellia chrysanthoides Hung T. ChangCamellia chrysanthoides

Camellia chrysanthoides, Subgenus Thea, Sect. Chrysantha, Ser. Chrysanthae Chang, Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni 1979(3): 71. 1979. Chang Hung-ta and Bruce Bartholomew (1984). Camellias, p.132: Camellia chrysanthoides Chang, Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni 1979(3):73. 1979; [Description] Shrub 2. 5 cm tall, branchlets glabrous. Leaves membranous, oblong or oblanceolate, 10-15 cm long, 3-5. 5 cm wide, apices acuminate or abruptly acute, bases cuneate or slightly obtuse; greyish-brown above in the dry state, dull, glabrous; light brown below, glabrous, dark-punctate; lateral veins 10-11, midvein impressed above, protrudingbelow; margins serrulate; petioles ca. 1 cm long, glabrous. Flowers axillary, 4-5.5 cm in diameter, short pedicellate; bracts 4-6; sepals 5, suborbicular, 3-5 mm long, puberulent; petals 8-9, basally slightly connate, apices slightly pointed; stamens 1. 3-1. 5 cm long; ovaries glabrous; styles 3-parted, free. Capsules axillary, flattened tricoccus, with 3indented grooves, 4. 5 cm wide, 2.5 cm high, glabrous, 3-locular, 1-2 seeds per locule, 3-valvate dehiscent; pericarp thin, less than 1 mm thick; with a columella; seeds globoseor hemispherical, brown; pedicels 6-7 mm long; 3-4 persistent bracts, semiorbicular toorbicular, 4-7 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, glabrous.

Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline，p.92. Flowers are yellow,4.0-5.5 cm in diameter, mostly borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 3-4 mm long. Bracts 4-6, outer surface pubescent. Sepals 5, persistent, outer surface puberulent, inside surface glabrous, margin ciliate. Petals 8-9, 1.0-1.9 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, broadly obovate, curled outward when open, tip slightly acuminate, slightly united at the base. Androecium glabrous, 1.3-1.5 cm long, outer layer of stamens fused into a column 2-3 mm from the base. Gynoecium about 10 mm long, 3 styles, free, not fused at the base, ovary slightly tomentose. Blooming season: winter .Capsule triangluar-oblate, 2.5-4.0 cm in diameter, 3 locules, pericarp wall 1 mm thick. Seeds yellow-pubescent. Leaves oblong, tip acuminate or shortly acute, base cuneate, 10.0-18.0 cm long, 3.0-6.5 cm wide, margin thinly serrulate, membrane-likely coriaceous, upper surface with midrib and lateral veins conspicuously impressed, glabrous, lower surface with midrib and laterals raised, glabrous, cork-warts. Petioles 6-10 mm long, glabrous. hrub or small tree up to 5 m tall, young shoots reddish-purple, glabrous, older branches gray-yellow in color. Distribution: Ever-green forests in regions with red or yellow earth in southern Guangxi;Elevation: 100-750 m; Spe-cific locality: Napen Village, Bajiao Township,Longzhou County,Guangxi, China.

薄叶金花茶Cameilia chrysanthoides Chang, l. c.73-74. 张宏达，1981. 《山茶属植物的系统研究》第105页。【标本】广西：龙津，大青山，1958年9月10日，张肇骞11847(模式Typus! in Bot. Inst. Austro-Sin.)；弄岗，王伯荪7901，7901A，7901B,7906,7907,7909；弄岗综考队 11364。【形态特征】灌木，高2.5米，嫩枝无毛。叶膜质，长圆形或倒披针形，长10-15厘米，宽3-5.5厘米，先端渐尖或急短尖，基部楔形或狭窄而略鈍，上面干后灰褐色，暗晦，无毛，下面浅褐色，无毛，有黑腺点，侧脉9-11对，与中脉在上面陷下，在下面突起，边缘有细锯齿，叶柄长约1厘米，无毛。花腋生，直径4-5.5厘米；有短柄；苞片4-6片；萼片5,近圆形，长3-5毫米，被微毛；花瓣8-9片，基部稍连生，先端略尖；雄蕊长1.3-1.5厘米；子房无毛，花柱3条，离生。蒴果腋生，扁三角形，有3条收窄直沟，宽4.5厘米，高2.5厘米，无毛，3室，每室有种子1-2粒，3爿裂开；果爿薄，厚不及1毫米，无中轴；种子圆球形或半球形，褐色；果柄长6-7毫米，有宿存苞片3-4片，苞片半圆形，长1-1.5毫米，宽2-3毫米，无毛；宿存萼片5片，半圆形至圆形，长4-7毫米，宽5-8毫米，无毛。

高继银、帕克斯、杜跃强，2005. 《山茶属植物主要原种彩色图集》浙江科学技术出版社，第92页。花黄色，花径4.0~5.5厘米，多腋生。花柄长3~4毫米。苞片4~6枚，外被短柔毛，萼片5枚，宿存，外被微柔毛，内无毛，边缘有睫毛。花瓣8~9枚，长1.0~1.9厘米，宽0,8~1.5厘米，阔倒卵形，先端略尖，基部略连生，全开放时花瓣外卷。雄蕊无毛，长1.3~1.5厘米，外轮花丝基部连生2~3毫米。雌蕊长约10毫米，花 柱3条，离生，子房略被域毛。花期冬季。蒴果扁三角球形，直径2.5~4.0厘米，3室，果皮厚约1毫米。种子被黄色短柔毛。叶长圆形，先端渐尖或急短尖，基部楔形，长10.0~18.0厘米，宽 3.0~6.5厘米，边缘有细叶齿，膜革质，叶面中脉和侧脉凹陷，无毛，叶背面中脉和侧脉凸起，有腺点，无毛。叶柄长6~10毫米，无毛。灌木或小乔木，高可达5米，嫩枝泛紫红色，无毛，老枝灰黄色,无毛。分布：广西壮族自治区南部红黄壤地区的常绿阔叶林下，海拔 100-750米。可寻地点:广西壮族自治区龙州县八角乡那盆村。