云南连蕊茶(原变种) yun nan lian rui cha (yuan bian zhong)

Thea forrestii Diels, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 284. 1912; Camellia liui H. T. Tsai & K. M. Feng; C. polygama (Hu) Hu; C. truncata Hung T. Chang & C. X. Ye; T. polygama Hu; Theopsis forrestii (Diels) Nakai; T. polygama (Hu) Nakai.

Leaf blade ovate, elliptic-ovate, or oblong-ovate, apex usually obtuse but sometimes bluntly acute to bluntly acuminate. Flower buds white, rarely pink. Sepals 2.5-5 mm, margins narrowly membranous. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct.

Forests, thickets; (1200-)1600-2800(-3200) m. Yunnan [N Vietnam].