Camellia lutchuensis Ito ex Ito & Matsum.

Shrubs or rarely trees, 2-3(-6) m tall. Young branches grayish brown, spreading villous and pubescent or puberulent, indumentum persisting 2-3 years. Petiole 1-3 mm, pubescent; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 2-4.5 × (0.6-)1-1.8 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and pilose along midvein or glabrescent, adaxially bright green and hirtellous along midvein, midvein raised on both surfaces, secondary veins 6-8 on each side of midvein and slightly raised on both surfaces, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex bluntly acute to acuminate. Flowers solitary, fragrant. Pedicel 1-2.5 mm; bracteoles 4-8, covering pedicel, broadly ovate to semiorbicular, 0.5-2 mm, glabrous, margin ciliolate. Sepals 5, nearly distinct, ovate, broadly ovate, or lanceolate, (1-)2.5-3 mm, glabrous, margin ciliolate, apex rounded. Petals 5 or 6, white, obovate to broadly obovate, (0.6-)1-1.5 × (0.4-)0.9-1.2 cm, basally connate for 2-4 mm, apex emarginate. Stamens (0.5-)1-1.2 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for (2-)5-6 mm into a tube. Gynoecium 6-13 mm, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., 3-loculed; style (0.5-)1-1.2 cm, apically 3-parted for ca. 1.5 mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. 1 cm in diam., l-loculed with 1 seed; pericarp thin, splitting into 3 valves. Seed dark brown, globose, ca. 7 mm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30, 90.

S Guangxi, Hong Kong, Taiwan [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

Forests, thickets; (below 100-)400-1400(-2400) m.

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Camellia lutchuensis is a species of camellia that is widespread in southeastern China, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. It is a shrub or small tree growing from 2–7 meters in height, with evergreen leaves and fragrant, white flowers.

Camellia lutchuensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được T.Itô mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1899.