瘤果茶 Camellia tuberculata S.S.ChienCamellia tuberculata

Camellia tuberculata, Subgenus Camellia, Sect. Tuburculata, Chang Hung-ta and Bruce Bartholomew (1984). Camellias, p.67: Camellia tuberculata Chien, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China Bot. 12: 94. 1939. [Description] Fang 24752 has relatively small leaf blades, 5-7. 5 cm long, 2-2. 5 cm wide; styles 4-parted, free and pubescent. The typical species has 5-parted free styles, and the back ofthe leaves are atropunctate. Thea sp. Wils. in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 3:451. 1917.

Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline，p.284-286. Flowers are white with some pink markings on fading flowers, 4.0-6.3 cm in diameter, borne at the tip of the shoots. Perules persistent, 7-12, outside yellowish-pubescent, inside pubescent. Petals 6-9,2.0-4.7 cm long, 1.0-2.1 cm wide, obovate, cleft at the tip up to 2 mm, glabrous, fused at the base with the staminal column up to 12 mm. Androecium glabrous, 1.5-3.4 cm long, outside filaments fused from the base into a cup up to 15 mm long. Gynoecium 1.6-3.2 cm long, 3-5 white pubescent styles, free at the base, ovary gray-white tomentose with dense green tubercules. Blooming season: autumn to early winter. Capsules globose to flat-globose in shape, 1.5-2.2 cm in diameter, glabrous, surface tuberculate, 3-5 locules. Seeds pubescent. Leaves narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic in shape, tip acute to gradually acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, 7.0-15.4 cm long, 2.3-6.5 cm wide, margin serrulate, teeth spaced 2-5 mm apart, upper surface glabrous with midrib and major veins impressed, lower surface glabrous with midrib and major veins raised, cork-warts. Petiole 7-14 mm long, glabrous. Shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall, young shoots glabrous with ridges, young leaves purple red, older branches smooth, gray-brown in color. Distribution: Abundant in northwestern Guizhou Province and scattered populations in southwestern Hunan Province, eastern Sichuan Province and the northeastern part of Guangxi; Elevation: 500-1,100 m; Specific locality: Kuchayuan, Banqiao Village, Yuanhou Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province, China.

Abundant in northwestern Guizhou Province and scattered populations in southwestern Hunan Province, eastern Sichuan Province and the northeastern part of Guangxi; Elevation: 500-1,100 m; Specific locality: Kuchayuan, Banqiao Village, Yuanhou Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province, China.

瘤果茶Camellia tuberculata Cliien in Contr. Biole Lab. Sci.Soc.China. Bot. 12： 94. fig. 3. 1939. 张宏达，1981. 《山茶属植物的系统研究》第48页。【标本】四川：北碚，曲桂龄6621 (模式）；缙云山，杨衔晋3280；乐山，王树嘉213；奉节，狮子坝，方明渊24752；缙云山，裴鉴7515；南川，汪发纘10901。方明渊24752标本，具有较小的叶片，长5-7.5厘米，宽2-2.5厘米，具有4条被毛的离生花柱，模式种具有5条分离的花柱，叶背有黑腺点。

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284-286页。花白色，调萎时有少量粉红色斑点，直径4.0~6.3厘米，顶生。鱗片7~12枚，宿存，表面被黄色柔毛，里面被短柔毛。花瓣6~9枚，长2.0~4.7厘米，宽1.0~2.1厘米，倒卵形，先端凹缺2毫米，无毛，基部与雄蕊柱连生12毫米。雄蕊无毛，长1.5~3.4厘米，外轮花丝基部连生形成15毫米长短管。雌蕊长1.6~3.2厘米，花柱3~5个，被白色柔毛，离生，子房被灰白色绒毛，有很多绿色瘤状凸起。花期秋季至冬初。蒴果球形至扁球形，直径1.5~2.2厘米，无毛，果皮有瘤状突起，3~5室。种子被柔毛。叶窄椭圆形至卵状椭圆形，先端急尖至渐尖，基部楔形至阔楔形，长7.0~15.4厘米，宽2.3~6.5厘米，边缘具细齿，齿距2~5毫米，叶面无毛，中脉和侧脉凹陷，叶背无毛，中脉和侧脉凸起，有腺点。叶柄长7~14毫米,无毛。灌木或小乔木，高可达5米，嫩枝无毛，紫红色，有棱角，老枝光滑，灰褐色。分布：贵州省西北部有集中连片分布，湖南省西南 部，四川省东部和广西壮族自治区东北部有零星分布，海 拔500-1100米。可寻地点:贵州省赤水市元厚镇板桥村苦茶园。

贵州省西北部有集中连片分布，湖南省西南部，四川省东部和广西壮族自治区东北部有零星分布，海拔500~1100米。可寻地点:贵州省赤水市元厚镇板桥村苦茶园。