Camellia chrysanthoides Hung T. Chang

Shrubs or trees, 1.5-5 m tall. Current year branchlets purplish brown, glabrous; terminal buds large, terete, gray puberulent. Petiole 6-10 mm, glabrous, adaxially grooved; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to oblong, 10-19 × 3.5-6.5 cm, leathery to thinly leathery, abaxially pale green, brown glandular punctate, and becoming pale brown when dry, adaxially dark green, both surfaces glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially channeled, secondary veins 10-12 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially impressed, base cuneate to obtuse, margin serrulate, apex abruptly shortly caudate to caudate. Flowers axillary, solitary, ca. 4 cm in diam. Pedicel 3-4 mm; bracteoles 5 or 6, ± covering pedicel, semiorbicular, 1-2 mm, outside gray puberulent, inside glabrous. Sepals 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 3-3.5 mm, outside gray puberulent, inside glabrous, margin ciliolate. Petals ca. 9, yellow; outer 2 petals sepaloid, suborbicular, ca. 5 mm, outside puberulent; inner petals broadly obovate to oblong-elliptic, 1-1.9 × 0.8-1.5 cm, basally connate and adnate to androecium. Stamens ca. 1.3 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate into a 2-3 mm tube. Ovary white tomentose, 3-loculed; styles 3, distinct, 1-1.2 cm, glabrous or basally pubescent. Capsule flattened globose, (2 or)3-coccal, ca. 1.5 × 2.5-4.5 cm, 2- or 3-grooved; pericarp ca. 1 mm thick. Seeds brown, globose or hemispherical, yellow pubescent. Fl. Dec, fr. Sep. 2n = 30*.

Guangxi (Longzhou, Pingxiang).

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests on rock or hills; 100-800 m.

Camellia longzhouensis J. Y. Luo; C. xiashiensis S. Ye Liang & C. Z. Deng.

Camellia chrysanthoides (薄叶金花茶) is a species of camellia endemic to Longzhou and Pingxiang counties in Guangxi province, China. It is a shrub or small tree growing between 1.5 and 5 meters in height, with yellow flowers. It is endangered in the wild, with about 20-100 mature individuals remaining.

Camellia chrysanthoides là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được H.T.Chang mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1979.

薄叶金花茶（学名：Camellia chrysanthoides）为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等地，多生于非钙质的山地常绿林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。