Camellia kwangsiensis Hung T. Chang

Shrubs or trees, 3-6 m tall. Young branches pale brown, glabrous; current year branchlets purplish brown, gray pubescent; terminal buds white sericeous. Petiole purplish brown, 0.8-1.2 cm, glabrous, abaxially grooved; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to oblong, 8-12(-17) × 3-5(-7) cm, leathery, abaxially pale green, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent, and becoming pale brown when dry, adaxially dark green and becoming grayish brown when dry, shiny, and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially slightly raised, secondary veins 9-11 on each side of midvein and raised on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, margin sharply serrulate, apex acuminate to shortly acuminate. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary or paired. Pedicel 7-10 mm, thickened toward apex, glabrous; bracteoles 2, caducous. Sepals 5, persistent, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 7-10 mm, leathery, outside glabrous or farinose-puberulent, inside white sericeous, margin membranous. Petals 8-10, white, broadly obovate, 2-2.5 cm, outside glabrous or farinose-puberulent, basally connate. Stamens 1.1-1.8 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl connate for basal 1/3. Ovary globose, glabrous, 5-loculed; style ca. 1.8 cm, apically 5-parted for ca. 6 mm. Capsule globose, ca. 4 cm in diam., 5-loculed with 2 seeds per locule; pericarp 5-6 mm thick when dry. Seeds brown, hemispherical, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Nov-Dec, fr. Sep-Oct.

W Guangxi, SE Yunnan.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests, mixed forests; 1500-1900 m.

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

广西茶（学名：Camellia kwangsiensis）是山茶科山茶属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的云南、广西等地，生长于海拔1,500米至1,700米的地区，常生长在疏林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。