Camellia pachyandra Hu

Shrubs or trees, 5-12 m tall. Year-old branchlets grayish brown; current year branchlets green to yellowish green, glabrous. Petiole 5-7 mm, abaxially pubescent; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, elliptic, or oblong, 6.5-11 × 3-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green, ferruginous glandular puncticulate, and sparsely villous along midvein, adaxially green and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially slightly raised, secondary and reticulate veins ± raised on both surfaces, base cuneate to obtuse, margin serrulate, apex shortly caudate and with a blunt tip. Flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals ca. 6; outer 2 bracteoles and sepals semiorbicular to broadly ovate, 1.5-2.5 × 2.5-3.5 mm; inner 4 bracteoles and sepals suborbicular, 4-6 mm in diam., subleathery, glabrous, margin membranous and ciliolate. Petals 5, white or pink, obovate, 8-9 × 5-6 mm, basally connate for ca. 2 mm, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 6 mm; filaments glabrous; outer filament whorl connate for 2-3 mm. Ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm, densely tomentose; styles 3(or 4), distinct, glabrous. Capsule globose to subglobose, 3.5-5 × 2.5-4 cm, 3-loculed with 2 seeds per locule, apex sunken; pericarp yellow and smooth, ca. 1.5 mm thick when dry. Seeds grayish brown, semiglobose, 1-2 cm in diam., smooth. Fl. Apr, fr. Oct-Nov.

S Yunnan.

● Forests; 1400-1900 m.

Camellia taheishanensis F. C. Zhang.

Camellia pachyandra là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Hu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1938.

厚短蕊茶（学名：Camellia pachyandra）为山茶科山茶属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南等地，生长于海拔1,500米至1,800米的地区，一般生于杂木林，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。