Camellia fraterna Hance

Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Young branches purplish brown, glabrous; year-old branchlets with indumentum ± persistent; current year branchlets densely spreading villous and hirsute. Petiole 3-5 mm, villous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-8 × (1.5-)2-3.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely appressed villous, adaxially dark green, shiny, and hirtellous along midvein, midvein abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein, abaxially slightly raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex bluntly acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, 2.5-4 cm in diam. Pedicel 3-4 mm, thick, villous; bracteoles 4 or 5, covering pedicel, ovate, 1-2 mm, outside densely yellowish brown villous. Calyx cupular, 4-5 mm; lobes 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-3.5 mm, outside densely yellowish brown villous, inside yellow sericeous. Petals 5 or 6, white or sometimes pale pink, obovate to broadly obovate, 2-2.5 cm, basally connate for 3-5 mm, outside glabrous or puberulent toward apex. Stamens 1.5-2 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 0.8-1.2 cm. Ovary ovoid, 1-2 mm, glabrous, 3-loculed; style 1.4-1.8 cm, apically 3-parted for 1-2 mm. Capsule globose, 1.5-2 cm in diam., 1-loculed with l seed; pericarp thinly leathery. Seed chestnut brown, globose, 1.3-1.8 cm in diam. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 90*.

Anhui, Fujian, Henan, S Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

● Forests, thickets; (below 100-)300-1100 m.

Thea fraterna (Hance) Kuntze; Theopsis fraterna (Hance) Nakai.

Camellia fraterna is a species of flowering plant in the tea family Theaceae, native to southeastern China. A perennial shrub from 1 to 4 m (3 to 13 ft) tall, it is typically found in thickets and forests at elevations of 100 to 1,100 m (300 to 3,600 ft). It has been crossed with other members of Camellia to produce a number of hybrid cultivars, including 'Tiny Princess' with Camellia cuspidata.

Habit

Camellia fraterna là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Hance mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1862.

毛柄连蕊茶（学名：Camellia fraterna）是山茶科山茶属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在大洋洲以及中国大陆的江苏、江西、安徽、浙江、福建等地，生长于海拔100米至1,200米的地区，多生在林缘灌丛、林缘、疏林中、山坡、山谷疏林中、溪边灌丛中、山谷、灌丛中或杂木林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。