Section：Theopsis
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Remarks：This name is accepted
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Camellia rosiflora Hook. Bot. Mag. 84: t. 5044 (1858) Accepted Name
Thea maliflora Seem Trans. Linn. Soc. London 22: 346 (1859) Heterotypic Synonym
Thea rosiflora (Hook.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 64 (1891) Homotypic Synonym
Camellia rosaeflora Hook. Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni, monogr. ser. 1: 144. 1981 Heterotypic Synonym
玫瑰连蕊茶 张宏达. 1981. 山茶属植物的系统研究.中山大学学报（自然科学）论丛(1):160 Chinese Name
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Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline，p.259. Flowers are pink, slightly fragrant, about 3.5 cm in diameter, borne at the tips of shoots and in leaf axils; bud set often abundant. Pedicels 4-9 mm long, finely pubescent. Bracts6-8, pubescent on the outer surface, inside glabrous. Sepals 5-6, villous on the outer surface, inside glabrous. Petals 6-9, 1.4-1.8 cm long,1.0-1.6 cm wide, obovate to semiorbicular, united to the staminal column for up to 6 mm from the base. Androecium glabrous, 1.6-1.8 cm long, outer filaments fused from the base into a tube. Gynoecium 1.7-1.8 cm long, 3 styles shallowly cleft at the tip, ovary glabrous. Blooming season: winter to early spring. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, tip bluntly acuminate, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, 4.5-8.0 cm long, 2.0-2.5 cm wide, margin widely serrulate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with midrib prominent. Petioles 6-10 mm long, pubescent on the upper side. Shrub up to 2 m tall, young shoots purplish-brown, slightly pubescent, older branches gray in color. Distribution: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Hubei Provinces; Specific locality: vicinity of Yichang City, Hubei Province, China.
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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259页。花粉红色，略芳香，花径约3.5厘米，顶生和腋生，花芽密。花柄长4~9毫米，被微毛。苞片6~8枚，表面有短柔毛，里面无毛。萼片5~6枚，表面被长柔毛，里面无毛。花瓣6~9枚，长1.4~1.8厘米，宽1.0~1.6.厘米，倒卵形至半圆形，基部与雄蕊柱连生6毫米。雄蕊无毛，长1.6~1.8厘米，基部连生形成短管。雌蕊长1.7~1.8厘米，花柱先端3浅裂，子房无毛。花期冬季至春初。叶椭圆形或阔椭圆形，先端钝尖，基部楔形至宽楔形，长4.5~8.0厘米，宽2.0-2.5厘米，边缘具细圆齿，叶面无毛，叶背中脉凸起。叶柄长6~10毫米，表面略被毛。灌木，高可达2米，嫩枝紫褐色，略被毛，枝条稠密，老枝灰色。分布：江苏、浙江、四川和湖北等省。可寻地点:湖北省宜昌一带。
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Species in the Same Section: 细叶金花茶 Camellia parvifolia Cohen-Stuart、黄杨叶连蕊茶 Camellia buxifolia Hung T.Chang、贵州连蕊茶 Camellia costei H.Lév.、厚柄连蕊茶 Camellia crassipes Sealy、尖连蕊茶 Camellia cuspidata (Kochs) Hort. ex Bean、浙江尖连蕊茶 Camellia cuspidata (Kochs) Bean var. chekiangensis Sealy、大花尖连蕊茶 Camellia cuspidata var. grandiflora Sealy、长管连蕊茶 Camellia elongata (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Rehder、柃叶连蕊茶 Camellia euryoides Lindl.、蒙自连蕊茶 Camellia forrestii (Diels) Cohen-Stuart、毛花连蕊茶 Camellia fraterna Hance、岳麓连蕊茶 Camellia handelii Sealy、九嶷山连蕊茶 Camellia jiuyishanica Hung T.Chang & L.L.Qi、披针萼连蕊茶 Camellia lancicalyx Hung T.Chang、披针叶连蕊茶 Camellia lancilimba Hung T.Chang、荔波连蕊茶 Camellia lipoensis Hung T.Chang & Z.R.Xu 、长果连蕊茶 Camellia longicarpa Hung T.Chang & B.M.Barthol.、琉球连蕊茶 Camellia lutchuensis T.Itō、大萼连蕊茶 Camellia macrosepala Hung T.Chang、微花连蕊茶 Camellia minutiflora Hung T.Chang、能高山茶 Camellia nokoensis Hayata、细叶连蕊茶 Camellia parvilimba Merr. & F.P.Metcalf、小卵叶连蕊茶 Camellia parviovata Hung T.Chang & S.S.Wang、超长尖连蕊茶 Camellia percuspidata Hung T.Chang、肖长尖连蕊茶 Camellia subacutissima Hung T.Chang、川滇连蕊茶 Camellia synaptica Sealy、阿里山连蕊茶 Camellia transarisanensis (Hayata) Cohen-Stuart、南投秃连蕊茶 Camellia transnokoensis Hayata、三花连蕊茶 Camellia triantha Hung T.Chang、毛枝连蕊茶 Camellia trichoclada (Rehder) S.S.Chien、云南连蕊茶 Camellia tsaii Hu、细萼连蕊茶 Camellia tsofui S.S.Chien、广强山茶 Camellia quangcuongii L.V.Dung, S.T. Hoang & Nhan、比杜普山茶 Camellia bidoupensis Truong, Luong & Tran、长凸连蕊茶 Camellia longicuspis S.Ye Liang 、长萼连蕊茶 Camellia longicalyx Hung T.Chang、尖萼蒙自连蕊茶 Camellia forrestii (Diels) Cohen-Stuart var. acutisepala (H.T.Tsai & K.M.Feng) Hung T.Chang、细尖连蕊茶 Camellia parvicuspidata Hung T.Chang、长尖连蕊茶 Camellia acutissima Hung T.Chang、美齿连蕊茶 Camellia callidonta Hung T.Chang、川鄂连蕊茶 Camellia rosthorniana Hand.-Mazz.、短柄细叶连蕊茶 Camellia parvilimba var. brevipes Hung T.Chang、小石果连蕊茶 Camellia parvilapidea Hung T.Chang、五室连蕊茶 Camellia stuartiana Sealy、秃梗连蕊茶 Camellia dubia Sealy、膜叶连蕊茶 Camellia membranacea Hung T.Chang、钟萼连蕊茶 Camellia campanisepala Hung T. Chang、金平连蕊茶 Camellia tsingpienensis、毛萼金屏茶 Camellia tsingpienensis var. pubisepala Hung T.Chang、绿萼连蕊茶 Camellia viridicalyx、小长尾连蕊茶 Camellia parvicaudata Hung T.Chang、半秃连蕊茶 Camellia subglabra Chang、毛丝连蕊茶 Camellia trichandra Hung T.Chang
