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5. Camellia sect. Theopsis Cohen-Stuart, Meded. Proefstat. Thee. 40: 69. 1916.

连蕊茶组 lian rui cha zu

Camellia subg. Metacamellia Hung T. Chang; Theopsis (Cohen-Stuart) Nakai.

Leaf blade often small, thinly leathery, adaxially hirtellous along midvein. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, small. Bracteoles (2 or)3-5(-8), persistent. Sepals 5, basally ± connate. Petals 5(-7), white, basally connate and adnate with androecium. Stamens in 2 whorls, glabrous; outer filament whorl basal 2/3 usually connate into a tube. Gynoecium glabrous. Ovary 3(-5)-loculed. Capsule 1(-4)-loculed, usually 1-seeded, rarely more; columella nearly abortive; pericarp ca. 1 mm thick, leathery, splitting into 3 valves.

Nineteen species: China, S Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; 19 species (14 endemic) in China.


1 Current year branchlets glabrous or puberulent, sometimes only obviously minutely puberulent under magnification   (2)
+ Current year branchlets densely pubescent, hispidulous, hirsute, or spreading villous   (6)
       
2 (1) Sepals linear-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, apex caudate-acuminate.   37 C. longicalyx
+ Sepals broader than linear-lanceolate, 1-5(-8) mm, apex rounded, obtuse, or caudate   (3)
       
3 (2) Young branches slender and ascendant; pedicel 8-12 mm, not thinkened toward apex; calyx ca. 2/3 connate.   49 C. elongata
+ Young branches spreading; pedicel 2-5 mm, thickened toward apex; calyx ca. 1/2 or less connate   (4)
       
4 (3) Leaf blade glabrous, midvein adaxially impressed.   36 C. glabricostata
+ Leaf blade minutely hirtellous, midvein adaxially raised   (5)
       
5 (4) Leaf blade oblong-elliptic, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate; sepals and petals outside not farinose-puberulent; sepal margins membranous.   34 C. cuspidata
+ Leaf blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; sepals and petals outside farinose-puberulent; sepal margins ciliolate.   35 C. viridicalyx
       
6 (1) Current year branchlets spreading villous, hirsute, or pubescent   (7)
+ Current year branchlets densely pubescent or hispidulous   (10)
       
7 (6) Filaments white pilose.   47 C. tsingpienensis
+ Filaments glabrous   (8)
       
8 (7) Leaves distichous; leaf blade ovate to elliptic-ovate, 1-2.5 cm, base rounded to subcordate; sepals outside glabrous.   44 C. trichoclada
+ Leaves not distichous; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, 2-8 cm, base broadly cuneate to cuneate; sepals outside villous   (9)
       
9 (8) Leaf blade 4-8 × 2-3.5 cm; petiole 3-5 mm; calyx lobes inside yellow sericeous; petals 2-2.5 cm.   45 C. fraterna
+ Leaf blade 2-4.8 × 1-1.7 cm; petiole 1.5-3 mm; calyx lobes inside glabrous; petals 1-1.8 cm.   46 C. transarisanensis
       
10 (6) Style usually divided to middle, apically parted for (1-)2.5-9 mm   (11)
+ Style apically 3-lobed or 3-parted, apically parted for ca. 1.5 mm or less   (14)
       
11 (10) Style (4 or)5-parted.   31 C. stuartiana
+ Style 3-parted   (12)
       
12 (11) Style parted for 7-9 mm.   33 C. crassipes
+ Style parted for 2.5-5 mm   (13)
       
13 (12) Leaf blade elliptic, elliptic-ovate, ovate, or oblong-ovate, 2-7 × 1-2.5 cm, base rounded to obtuse, apex broadly obtuse, bluntly acute, or bluntly acuminate; bracteoles outside glabrous; stamens 0.9-1.2 cm; style 0.8-1.2 cm; capsule apex convex.   32 C. forrestii
+ Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 × 1.5-3 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex long acuminate to caudate; bracteoles outside pubescent; stamens 1.1-1.4 cm; style 1.2-1.5 cm; capsule apex apiculate.   40 C. tsaii
       
14 (10) Leaf blade 2-4.5 cm   (15)
+ Leaf blade 5-10(-12) cm   (17)
       
15 (14) Bracteoles 4-8, covering pedicel.   41 C. lutchuensis
+ Bracteoles 3-5, not covering pedicel   (16)
       
16 (15) Pedicel 2-4 mm, stout, bracteoles outside glabrous; calyx lobes 2-2.5 mm.   42 C. rosthorniana
+ Pedicel 4-10 mm but to 15 mm in fruit, slender, bracteoles outside puberulent near apex; calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm.   43 C. euryoides
       
17 (14) Calyx lobes outside glabrous.   38 C. synaptica
+ Calyx lobes outside pubescent   (18)
       
18 (17) Pedicel 2-5 mm; calyx 3-4.5 mm.   39 C. costei
+ Pedicel ca. 7 mm; calyx 5-5.6 mm.   48 C. cupiformis

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