Section：Oleifera
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Remarks：This name is accepted
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Camellia sasanqua Thunb. J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 632 (1784) Accepted Name
Thea sasanqua (Thunb.) Nois. ex Cels Cat. Arbr.: 35 (1817) Homotypic Synonym
Sasanqua vulgaris Nees Literaturber. Flora 4: 144 (1834) Heterotypic Synonym
Sasanqua malliflora Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 140 (1838) Heterotypic Synonym
Sasanqua odorata Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 140 (1838) Heterotypic Synonym
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Camellia sasanqua, Subgenus Camellia, Sect. oleifera, Chang Hung-ta and Bruce Bartholomew (1984). Camellias, p.38: Camellia sasanqua Thunb., Fl. Jap., 273. 1784. [Description] This species is very close to C. oleifera only the leaf blades are smaller and slightly thinner, leaf apices obtuse, margins serrulate; sepals glabrous; styles shorter. This species is possibly a geographic variety of C. oleifera. [Distribution] Japan, occasionally cultivated in China. [Synonym] Thea sasanqua (Thunb.) Cels, Cat. Arbres, Arbustes, 35. 1817. \Sasanqua vulgaris Nees in Siebold, Nippon 2: 13. 1832. \Sasanqua odorata Raf., Svlva Tellur., 140. 1838.
Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline，p.172-174. Flowers are white, but may be pink or red in cultivated forms, fragrant, 5.0-7.6 cm in diameter, borne at the tips of shoots and additionally in leaf axils; bud set may be abundant. Perules 8-10, drop as the petals unfold, more or less pubescent on the outside, inside glabrous. Petals 7-8, oblanceolate to obovate, 3.0-3.7 cm long, 1.4-2.4 cm wide, (wild forms) cleft at the tip 3-5 mm, outside of outermost petals sometimes slightly villous, inside glabrous, essen-tially free, not connate or adnate with the androecial column. Androecium glabrous, 1.1-1.6 cm long, widely spreading, free, or outer ones fused up to 3 mm, approximately 100 anthers. Gynoecium 1.1-1.5 cm long, 3 styles, mostly glabrous, range from 10%-85% basal fusion, ovary densely tomentose. Blooming season: autumn to early winter. Capsules irregularly globose to pear-shaped, 1.4-2.6 cm long and 1.3-2.2 cm in diameter, villous or partially glabrous at maturity, 3 locules, rarely 2 or 4, each locule with 1-3 seeds, pericarp wall 1-2 mm thick. Leaves variably elliptic, apex acute or variously acuminate to occasionally cuspidate, base cuneate, 2.6-63 cm long, 0.9-3.2 cm wide (often larger in cultivars), serrulate, teeth spaced 2-6 mm apart, upper surface smooth, hirsutulous along the midrib, lower surface smooth, with a few hairs along the midrib. Petioles 4-6 mm long. Shrub or small tree with a single trunk up to 30 cm in diameter, 10 m tall, stems light brown or tan in color, young shoots heavily villous, older branches gray and smooth. Distribution: Southern Shikoku, Kyushu and islands south of Kyushu, Japan; Specific locality: Shikoku Island near the town of Matsuyama, Japan.
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茶梅Camellia sasanqua Thunb. FI. Jap. 273, t. 30, 1784； Sealy Rev. Gen Camellia, 203, 1965. 张宏达，1981. 《山茶属植物的系统研究》第23页。【标本】日本Japan：Rein.s.n 中山大学标本号76034；东京，黄、苏（42)4；长崎，Migo H. 1939年5月，南京植物所51427；萨摩，出水郡，阿久根町，中岛一男1938年1月2日，南京植物所51429。分布：日本，中国间或有栽培。【形态特征】和油茶C. oleifera很接近，只是叶片较小，稍薄。先端钝，边缘具细小钝齿，萼片秃净，花柱较短。它很可能是油茶的地理变种。
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172-174页。花白色，但栽培类型可能出现粉红色或红色，芳香，花径5.0~7.6厘米，顶生或腋生,花芽多。鱗片8~10枚，随着花瓣展开而脱落，鳞片由花柄向上逐渐增大，基部的鱗片卵圆形，外侧略被短柔毛，内侧无毛。花瓣7~8枚，倒披针形至倒心形，长3.0~3.7厘米，宽1.4~2.4厘米（野生类型)，先端有长3~5毫米的凹□，外轮花瓣背面有时被长柔毛，内侧无毛，离生或与雄蕊柱贴生。雄蕊 无毛，长1.1~1.6厘米，散射，离生或者外轮花丝基部连生3毫米，雄蕊约100枚。雌蕊长1.1~1.5厘米，花柱3裂，多数无毛，基部10%~85%连生，子房密被绒毛。花期秋季到冬初。蒴果不规则球形至梨形，长1.4~2.6厘 米，直径1.3~2.2厘米，成熟时被长柔毛或部分无毛，3室，少有2室或4室，每室1~3粒种子，果皮厚1~2晕米。叶椭圆形，先端尖或急尖，偶见尾尖，基部楔形，长2.6~6.3厘米，宽0.9~3.2厘米（栽培品种往往较大），边缘具细齿，齿距2~6毫米，叶面光滑，中脉被硬毛，叶背光滑，沿中 脉被稀疏柔毛。叶柄长4~6毫米。灌木或小乔木，高可达10米，干径可达30厘米，树干淡褐色或棕黄色，嫩枝密被长柔毛，老枝灰色，光滑。分布：日本四国南部、九州及九州以南列岛。可寻地 点：日本四国靠近Matsuyama镇附近。
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Species in the Same Section: 高州油茶 Camellia gauchowensis Hung T.Chang、油茶 Camellia oleifera C.Abel、越南油茶 Camellia vietnamensis T. C. Huang ex Hu、攸县油茶 Camellia yuhsienensis Hu
