Camellia edithae Hance

Shrubs or trees, 2-7 m tall. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous; current year branchlets densely yellow spreading villous, indumentum ± persistent. Petiole 2-5 mm, thick, spreading villous; leaf blade ovate, long ovate, or lanceolate, 6-12.5(-15.5) × 2.5-4.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green and appressed villous but spreading villous along midvein, adaxially dark green, shiny, yellow spreading villous along midvein, and becoming yellowish brown when dry, midvein abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially impressed, base rounded to cordate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate to long acuminate. Flowers subterminal, solitary, 5-6 cm in diam., subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 9-11; outer 2 or 3 bracteoles and sepals suborbicular, 4-6 mm, apex acute; inner bracteoles and sepals ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm, crustaceous, outside grayish yellow villous, inside white velutinous, margin scarious and ciliolate, apex acuminate. Petals 5 or 6, red, obovate, 2.5-4 × 2-3 cm, basally connate for ca. 1.5 cm, apex emarginate. Stamens 2.5-3 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 1.5-2 cm. Ovary tomentose, 3-loculed; style ca. 2.5 cm, glabrous, apically 3-lobed. Capsule brown, oblate to subglobose, 1.5-2 cm in diam., 3-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule; pericarp 1-2 mm thick when dry. Seeds brown, globose to semiglobose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Oct. 2n = 30*.

Fujian, NE Guangdong, SE Jiangxi.

● Forests; 200-1000 m.

Thea edithae (Hance) Kuntze.

Camellia edithae là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Hance mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1861.

尖萼红山茶（学名：Camellia edithae）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东、江西等地，生长于海拔200米至1,000米的地区，常生于林中路边阴湿地、林中和山谷林下，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。