Camellia polyodonta How ex Hu

Shrubs or trees, 3-8 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets purplish brown, gray pubescent. Petiole 6-13 mm, abaxially pubescent; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblong, or lanceolate, 8-14 × (1.5-)2-5(-6) cm, leathery to thickly leathery, abaxially pale green and appressed pubescent, adaxially dark green, shiny, rugulose, and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially level or slightly raised, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein, secondary and reticulate veins abaxially raised and adaxially strongly impressed, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin pectinately serrulate, apex abruptly shortly caudate to long caudate. Flowers subterminal, solitary, 5-6(-8) cm in diam., subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals ca. 15, ± persistent in young fruit, leathery, margin membranous; outer 4-6 bracteoles and sepals semiorbicular, 2.5-6 mm, outside glabrous or glabrescent; inner bracteoles and sepals orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.2-2(-2.5) cm, outside white or grayish yellow velutinous, inside glabrous. Petals 6 or 7, rose or rarely white; outer 1 or 2 petals distinct, obovate, ca. 2 × 1.5 cm; inner 5 petals broadly obovate, 3-4 × 2.5-3.5 cm, basally connate for 5-8 mm, apex emarginate. Stamens 2.5-3 cm; filaments white villous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 1.5-2 cm. Ovary globose, white velutinous or basally glabrous and apically with pubescence, 3-loculed; style 2-2.5 cm, glabrous or basally white velutinous, apically 3-lobed. Capsule globose, 6-8(-10) cm in diam., 3-loculed with 2 or 3 seeds per locule, apex convex; pericarp ca. l cm when dry, woody, furfuraceous. Seeds brown, semiglobose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Jan-Feb, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*.

W Guangdong, E and NE Guangxi, SW Hunan.

● Forests; (100-)500-1000 m.

Camellia polyodonta là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được F.C.How ex Hu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1965.

多齿红山茶（学名：Camellia polyodonta）是山茶科山茶属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广西、湖南等地，生长于海拔900米的地区，常生于山坡阔叶林中、山坡林中、林缘以及山坡疏林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。