Camellia saluenensis Stapf ex Bean

Shrubs 1-4 m tall, many branched, compact. Branches closely and densely leafy; young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets green, pubescent or glabrescent. Petiole ca. 5 mm, pubescent or glabrescent; leaf blade oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2.5-5.5 × 1-2.2 cm, rigidly leathery, abaxially pale green and villous along midvein or glabrescent, adaxially dark green, shiny, and glabrous, midvein elevated on both surfaces, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially impressed, base cuneate to rounded, margin serrulate, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary or paired, subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 8-10, caducous after anthesis; outer bracteoles and sepals lunate to semiorbicular, 2-5 mm, increasing in size from outer to inner; inner bracteoles and sepals obovate to broadly obovate, 1.5-2 cm, outside usually glabrous or rarely puberulent, margin ciliolate. Petals 5-7, rose, pink, or white, obovate to obovate-elliptic, 2.5-4 × 1.5-3 cm, basally connate for ca. 1.5 cm, apex emarginate. Stamens 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 1-1.8 cm. Ovary white tomentose, 3-loculed; style 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous or basally tomentose, apically 3-lobed. Capsule subglobose, ca. 2.5 cm in diam., 3-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule; pericarp ca. 2 mm thick, splitting into 3 valves. Seeds brown, globose to semiglobose, ca. 1 cm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Oct. 2n = 30*, 60*.

W Guizhou, SW Sichuan, C and W Yunnan.

● Mixed forests on mountain slopes; 1200-2800(-3200) m.

Camellia glabriperulata Hung T. Chang; C. minor Hung T. Chang; C. phaeoclada Hung T. Chang; C. pitardii var. lucidissima (H. Léveillé) Rehder; C. saluenensis f. minor Sealy; C. tenuivalvis Hung T. Chang; C. weiningensis Y. K. Li ex Hung T. Chang; Thea camellia Hoffmannsegg var. lucidissima H. Léveillé; T. pitardii (Cohen-Stuart) Rehder var. lucidissima (H. Léveillé) Rehder.

Camellia saluenensis is a species of Camellia native to south‑central China. A large bush, it is a parent of a number of garden hybrids. 'Cornish Snow' (C. cuspidata × C. saluenensis) which flowers in midwinter, and 'Inspiration' (C. reticulata × C. saluenensis) have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Camellia saluenensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Stapf ex Bean mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1933.

怒江山茶（学名：Camellia saluenensis），又名怒江红山茶，为山茶科山茶属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南等地，生长于海拔1,300米至2,800米的地区，常生长在常绿阔叶林中或针阔混交林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。