Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Camellia
66. Camellia crapnelliana Tutcher; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 37: 63. 1904.
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Camellia gigantocarpa Hu & T. C. Huang; C. latilimba Hu; C. multibracteata Hung T. Chang; C. octopetala Hu; Thea crapnelliana (Tutcher) Rehder.
Shrubs or trees; 2-10 m tall. Year-old branchlets reddish brown; current year branchlets green; glabrous. Petiole 6-12 mm; glabrous; adaxially channeled; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic; 7-19 x 3-6 cm; rigidly leathery; abaxially pale green and brown glandular punctate; adaxially dark green; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed; secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein; abaxially raised; and adaxially obscure; base cuneate to broadly cuneate; margin widely and obscurely denticulate; apex bluntly cuspidate. Flowers axillary or subterminal; solitary or paired; 4-10 cm in diam.; subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 7-13; ± persistent; semiorbicular to suborbicular; 0.3-2 cm; outside tawny tomentellate; inside glabrous. Petals 6-8; white; obovate to obovate-oblong; 3.5-6.5 x 2-4 cm; basally connate for 2-5 mm; apex rounded to emarginate. Stamens very numerous; 1.5-1.7 cm; filaments glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for ca. 5 mm. Ovary ca. 2 mm in diam.; densely tomentose; 3-5-loculed; styles 3-5; distinct; ca. 1.5 cm; basally pubescent to tomentose. Capsule grayish brown; subglobose; 5-7(-12) cm in diam.; 3(-5)-loculed with 3-5 seeds per locule; pericarp 5-10 mm thick; woody; furfuraceous; splitting into 3-5 valves; columella persistent; thick. Seeds brown; semiglobose; 1.5-2 cm in diam.; glabrous. Fl. Dec-Jan; fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*.
? Forests; 100-800 m. Fujian; Guangdong; S Guangxi; E Jiangxi; S Zhejiang
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Camellia
66. Camellia crapnelliana Tutcher; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 37: 63. 1904.
????? hong pi cao guo cha
Camellia gigantocarpa Hu & T. C. Huang; C. latilimba Hu; C. multibracteata Hung T. Chang; C. octopetala Hu; Thea crapnelliana (Tutcher) Rehder.
Shrubs or trees; 2-10 m tall. Year-old branchlets reddish brown; current year branchlets green; glabrous. Petiole 6-12 mm; glabrous; adaxially channeled; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic; 7-19 x 3-6 cm; rigidly leathery; abaxially pale green and brown glandular punctate; adaxially dark green; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed; secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein; abaxially raised; and adaxially obscure; base cuneate to broadly cuneate; margin widely and obscurely denticulate; apex bluntly cuspidate. Flowers axillary or subterminal; solitary or paired; 4-10 cm in diam.; subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 7-13; ± persistent; semiorbicular to suborbicular; 0.3-2 cm; outside tawny tomentellate; inside glabrous. Petals 6-8; white; obovate to obovate-oblong; 3.5-6.5 x 2-4 cm; basally connate for 2-5 mm; apex rounded to emarginate. Stamens very numerous; 1.5-1.7 cm; filaments glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for ca. 5 mm. Ovary ca. 2 mm in diam.; densely tomentose; 3-5-loculed; styles 3-5; distinct; ca. 1.5 cm; basally pubescent to tomentose. Capsule grayish brown; subglobose; 5-7(-12) cm in diam.; 3(-5)-loculed with 3-5 seeds per locule; pericarp 5-10 mm thick; woody; furfuraceous; splitting into 3-5 valves; columella persistent; thick. Seeds brown; semiglobose; 1.5-2 cm in diam.; glabrous. Fl. Dec-Jan; fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*.
? Forests; 100-800 m. Fujian; Guangdong; S Guangxi; E Jiangxi; S Zhejiang