Camellia transarisanensis (Hayata) Kanehira

Shrubs 1.5-3 m tall, many branched. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous; year-old branchlets purplish brown, with indumentum ± persistent; current year branchlets yellow spreading villous and hirsute. Petiole 1.5-3 mm, spreading villous and hirsute; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, (1.6-)2-4.8 × 1-1.7 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely appressed villous or glabrescent, adaxially dark green and hirtellous along midvein, midvein raised on both surfaces, secondary veins obscure, base broadly cuneate, margin crenulate-serrulate, apex obtuse, bluntly acute, or acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 2.5-4 mm, thickened toward apex; bracteoles 3-5, triangular to broadly ovate, 0.5-1.5 mm, outside yellow villous. Calyx cupular, ca. 4 mm; lobes 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-3 mm, outside densely yellow villous, inside glabrous, margin ciliolate. Petals 5 or 6, white, obovate to broadly obovate, 1.1-1.8 × 0.8-1.3 cm, basally connate for 3-6 mm, apex rounded to emarginate. Stamens 1.3-1.6 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for ca. 1 cm. Ovary ovoid, 1-2 mm, glabrous; style 1.1-1.4 cm, apically 3-parted for ca. l mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., 1-loculed with 1 seed; pericarp thinly leathery. Seed brown, globose, 1-1.2 cm in diam. Fl. Mar, fr. Oct.

Fujian, N Guangxi, S Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, SE Yunnan.

● Thicket; below 100-500 m.

Thea transarisanensis Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 5: 10. 1915, based on T. parvifolia Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 3: 45. 1913, not Salisbury (1796); Camellia handelii Sealy; C. parvifolia Cohen-Stuart; Theopsis transarisanensis (Hayata) Nakai.

Camellia transarisanensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được (Hayata) Cohen-Stuart mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1919.

阿里山连蕊茶又名阿里山茶（学名：Camellia transarisanensis）为山茶科山茶属的植物，為台灣特有植物，生長於海拔2100 至2700公尺處，白花單瓣花徑1.5-2.5公分，雌蕊長1.1公分，葉片橢圓前端鈍尖長2 4.5公分，新枝披白毛老枝光滑，灌木高達2.5公呎 ，適合做小型盆景或庭園木。