Camellia flavida Hung T. Chang

Shrubs 1-3.5 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets purplish red, glabrous. Petiole 3-10 mm, glabrous, adaxially grooved; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 8-16(-17.5) × 3-6.5 cm, 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 impressed, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, reticulate veins abaxially slightly raised and adaxially visible, base cuneate to obtuse, margin serrulate, apex acuminate to shortly caudate. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicel 3-5 mm; bracteoles 5 or 6, ± covering pedicel, semiorbicular to ovate, 1.5-2.5 × 2-3.5 mm, outside glabrous, inside white puberulent, margin ciliolate. Sepals 5, 3.5-5 × 4.5-6 mm, outside glabrous, inside white puberulent, margin ciliolate. Petals 7-13, pale yellow, rarely purplish in bud, obovate to obovate-elliptic, 1.2-2.5 × 0.9-1.5 cm; inner petals basally connate for ca. 2 mm. Stamens 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 3-5 mm. Ovary globose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous, (2 or)3(-5)-loculed; styles 3, distinct, 1-1.3 cm. Capsule oblate, 2.5-3.5 cm in diam., (2 or)3(-5)-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule; pericarp ca. 1 mm thick. Seeds brown, globose or hemispherical, 1-1.5 cm in diam., reddish brown villous. Fl. Nov-Jan, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*.

S and SW Guangxi.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests on calcareous hills; 100-500 m.

Camellia flavida là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được H.T.Chang mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1981.

淡黄金花茶（学名：Camellia flavida）是山茶科山茶属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的广西等地，多生长于常绿林中、石地或石灰岩山坡，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。