» Description
Camellia tenuistipa Orel, Curry & Luu in Pursuit Hidden Camellias Vietnam China: 263 (2015). TYPE: Central Vietnam. Gia Lai Prov.: Kon Ka Kinh National Park, 22 Jan. 2011, Luu Hong Truong, Nguyen Quoc Dat & Ly Tho Luu & Nguyen KKK 221 (holotype, NSW; isotypes, SGN). This name is a synonym of Camellia sinensis var. assamica.
C.tenuistipa differs
from member species in section Thea by possessing the following:
flowers pedunculate, terminal and axillary, single or geminate, white with a
yellowish tinge in the petal centre; sepals 5, in a single whorl; petals 6 (-5)
basally attached to filaments, in 2 whorls; style single, trifid; ovary rotund,
3-locular, yellowish-green, shiny, glabrous; mature capsules rotund, longitudinally
compressed, light to mid brown, slightly hairy to glabrous, sutures 3, locules
3, with 2 seeds per each locule.
» Distribution
Central Vietnam. Gia Lai Prov.: Kon Ka Kinh National Park
» Description
细枝茶 Camellia tenuistipa Orel, Curry & Luu。与茶组（Sect. Thea)其他种不同，它具有以下特征： 花具梗，顶生和腋生，单瓣，白色，花瓣中心有淡黄色色调；萼片 5，单轮；花瓣 6（-5）基着生于花丝，2 轮；花柱单生，三裂； 子房圆形，3 室，黄绿色，有光泽，无毛；成熟蒴果圆形，纵向扁平，浅褐色至中褐色，稍有毛至无毛，缝合线 3，子房室 3，每子房室有 2 粒种子。该名称应为普洱茶 Camellia sinensis var. assamica的后出异名。
» Distribution
越南中部的嘉莱省
Species in the Same Section: 丹寨秃茶 Camellia danzaiensis Hung T.Chang & K.M.Lan、超长柄茶 Camellia longissima Hung T.Chang & S.Ye Liang、防城茶 Camellia fangchengensis S.Ye Liang & Y.C.Zhong、秃房茶 Camellia gymnogyna Hung T.Chang、滇缅茶 Camellia irrawadiensis P.K.Barua、广西茶 Camellia kwangsiensis Hung T. Chang、膜叶茶 Camellia leptophylla S.Ye Liang ex Hung T.Chang、马关茶 Camellia makuanica Hung T.Chang, Y.J.Tan & P.S.Wang、细萼茶 Camellia parvisepala Hung T. Chang、毛叶茶 Camellia ptilophylla Hung T.Chang、汝城毛叶茶 Camellia pubescens Hung T.Chang & C.X.Ye、毛肋茶 Camellia pubicosta Merr.、大叶茶 Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. assamica (Choisy) Kitamura、茶 Camellia sinensis var. sinensis、大厂茶 Camellia tachangensis F.S.Zhang、大理茶 Camellia taliensis (W.W.Sm.) Melch.、细花山茶 Camellia flosculora Curry, V.S.Le, T.Q.Cuong & V.D.Luong、五室茶 Camellia quinquelocularis Hung T.Chang & S.Ye Liang、厚轴茶 Camellia crassicolumna Hung T. Chang、五柱茶 Camellia pentastyla Hung T.Chang、皱叶茶 Camellia crispula Hung T. Chang、突肋茶 Camellia costata S.Y.Hu & S.Y.Liang、榕江茶 Camellia yungkiangensis Hung T. Chang、狭叶茶 Camellia angustifolia Hung T. Chang、白毛茶 Camellia sinensis var. pubilimba Hung T.Chang、老挝茶 Camellia laotica (Gagnep.) T.L.Ming、麻豆茶 Camellia sinensis var. madoensis T.V.Nguyen, V.D.Luong & N.Trieu Le、大苞茶 Camellia grandibracteata Hung T.Chang, Y.J.Tan, F.L.Yu & P.S.Wang、广南茶 Camellia kwangnanica Hung T.Chang, H.S.Wang & B.H.Chen、疏齿大厂茶 Camellia tachangensis var. remotiserrata (Hung T.Chang, F.L.Yu & P.S.Wang) T.L.Ming、老挝茶 Camellia sealyana T.L.Ming、多萼茶 Camellia crispula var. multiplex (Hung T.Chang, Y.J.Tan & P.S.Wang) S.X.Yang、德宏茶 Camellia sinensis var. dehungensis (Hung T.Chang, H.S.Wang & B.H.Chen) T.L.Ming
