Camellia indochinensis Merr.

Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Young branches yellowish brown; current year branchlets purplish brown, slender, glabrous. Petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous, adaxially grooved; leaf blade elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblong-ovate, 6-10.5 × (2.5-)3-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green, brown glandular punctate, and becoming glaucescent when dry, adaxially dark green and becoming grayish green when dry, both surfaces glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 6 or 7 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, reticulate veins abaxially slightly raised and adaxially visible, base broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary, 1-3.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 3-13 mm, slender; bracteoles 5 or 6, not covering pedicel, semiorbicular to broadly ovate, 0.5-1.5 × 1-2.5 mm, glabrous or outside farinose-puberulent, margin ciliolate. Sepals 5, orbicular, 2-3 mm, concave, glabrous or outside farinose-puberulent, margin ciliolate. Petals 8 or 9, pale yellow to yellowish white; outer 3 or 4 petals suborbicular, 5-7 × 4-6 mm; inner petals obovate to oblong, 8-15 × 5-6 mm, basally connate for ca. 2 mm. Stamens 8-10 mm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 3-4 mm. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous; styles 3, distinct, ca. 1 cm. Capsule oblate, (2 or)3-coccal, 1-1.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm; pericarp 1-1.5 mm thick. Seeds hemispherical, brown, glabrous. Fl. Dec-Jan, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30.

S Guangxi [N Vietnam].

Forests on calcareous hills, in valleys, or along streams; (near sea level to)100-400 m.

Camellia indochinensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Merr. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1939.

中越山茶（学名：Camellia indochinensis）是山茶科山茶属的植物。分布在越南北部以及中国大陆的贵州、广西等地，生长于海拔600米至800米的地区，多生于山坡阴地或疏林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。