Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Camellia
56. Camellia salicifolia Champion; Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3: 309. 1851.
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Camellia salicifolia var. longisepala H. Keng; Camelliastrum salicifolium (Champion) Nakai; Thea salicifolia (Champion) Seemann.
Shrubs or trees; 3-6 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; year-old branchlets with indumentum ± persistent; current year branchlets spreading villous. Petiole 2-3 mm; densely villous; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate; 4.5-10 x 1.5-3 cm; papery; abaxially pale green; sparsely appressed villous with indumentum more dense along midvein; and becoming grayish white when dry; adaxially dark green; and becoming grayish green when dry; hirtellous along midvein; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially slightly impressed; secondary veins 7 or 8 on each side of midvein; abaxially raised; and adaxially obscure; base rounded; margin serrulate; apex long acuminate to caudate. Flowers axillary; solitary. Pedicel 4-5 mm; densely villous; bracteoles 4 or 5; outside white villous; inside glabrous; apex long acuminate; basal 2 bracteoles ovate; ca. 1.5 cm; apical 2 or 3 bracteoles lanceolate; 5-6 mm. Sepals 5; lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; 8-10 mm; outside densely white villous; inside glabrous; apex long acuminate. Petals 5 or 6; white; obovate to obovate-elliptic; 1.5-2 x 0.8-1.6 cm; outside farinose-puberulent; basally connate for 2-4 mm. Stamens ca. 1.5 cm; outer filament whorl basally connate for ca. 1 cm; distinct part white villous. Ovary white tomentose; 3-loculed; style ca. 1.5 cm; densely pubescent; apically 3-parted for 1-2 mm. Capsule globose; 1.5-2.5 cm in diam.; l-loculed with l seed; apex shortly conic; pericarp ca. 1 mm thick. Seed brown; subglobose. Fl. Nov; fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*.
? Forests; thickets; 300-800(-1400) m. Fujian; Guangdong; E Guangxi; S Jiangxi; Taiwan.