毛萼金花茶 Camellia pubisepala D.FangCamellia pubisepala

Camellia pubisepala, 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.134: Camellia pubipetala Wan & S. Z. Huang, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20:316. 1982. [Description] Shrub or small tree, nearly 5. 5 m tall; branchlets terete, densely hirsute, base withclose grouped ring scars. Leaves thinly coriaceous; oblong, oblong-elliptic or long-elliptic; 11-17(-21) cm long, 3.5-6 (-8) cm wide; apices caudate, rarely abruptlyacuminate, apiculate; bases rounded to cuneate; margins finely serrulate; dark-greenabove, shiny, smooth and glabrous; yellowish-green below, dark-punctate, denselyvillous; midvein sunken above, protruding below; lateral veins 8-10, level on top, protruding below; petioles 5-10 mm long, densely hirsute. Flowers golden yellow, 5-6. 5 cm in diameter, terminal or axillary, solitary, seldom 2, nearly sessile; bracts and sepals 12-14, gradually increasing in size from outer to inner, sublunate, broadly ovateto suborbicular, 3-21 mm long, outer surfaces puberulent, margins short ciliate; petals9-13, ovate, obovate or orbicular, 3. 2-4. 5 cm long, 1.5-2. 5 cm wide, bases somewhat connate, outside puberulent; stamens in many series, 5-6 whorls, filaments puberulent; outer whorl connate for 1.4 cm, adnate with petals for ca. 1 cm, inner whorl free; ovaries3-4-locular, suborbicular, ca. 3 cm in diameter, densely puberulent; styles 2. 6-3 cmlong, puberulent, apices 3-4-cleft, depth of clefts ca. 1/3 the style length. Blooming period November to April. Fruit not seen. This species is similar to C. impressinervis except that bracts, sepals, petal outersurfaces and filaments are all puberulent; style bases connate, apices 3-4-cleft; bothstyles and ovaries puberulent, flowers subsessile.

毛萼金花茶Camellia pubisepala D. Fang in Acta Botanica Yunnanica vol. 2. no. 3. 337. 1980. 张宏达，1981. 《山茶属植物的系统研究》第107页。【标本】广西：防城，滩散公社，海拔310米的石灰岩山地沟谷林中，10-11月开花，黄色，覃德海、李春迎76658 (模式）。【形态特征】灌木或小乔木；嫩枝无毛。叶革质，长圆形或狭椭圆形，长7-9.5厘米，宽2.7-3.5厘米，先端急短尖，基部阔楔形，上面无毛，干后稍发亮，下面有细小黑腺点，侧脉7-9对，边缘有细锯齿，叶柄长3-5毫米。花单生于叶腋，金黄色，直径4.5-5.5厘米；花柄长2-3毫米；苞片4-5，紧密叠置，长1-2毫米；萼片5-6,近圆形，长5-8毫米，外面有柔毛，边缘薄膜状；花瓣6-7片，长2-2.8厘米，基部略连生；雄蕊多轮，长7-9毫米，无毛，近离生；子房有毛，花柱3条离生，长5-7毫米。蒴果球形，3爿裂开。本种近似东兴金花茶C. tunghinensis Chang,但叶片的侧脉较多，花较大，子房被毛。

广西：防城