Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Pyrenaria
7. Pyrenaria spectabilis (Champion) C. Y. Wu & S. X. Yang; Novon. 15: 381. 2005.
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Trees 5-15 m tall. Young branches yellowish brown to grayish brown; current year branchlets puberulent when young; soon glabrescent. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade oblong; 16-18 x 4-7 cm; leathery; abaxially pale green; sparsely pubescent when young but soon glabrescent; and becoming yellowish brown when dry; adaxially green becoming yellowish green when dry; shiny; and glabrous; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed; secondary veins 12-16 on each side of midvein and raised on both surfaces; base cuneate; margin undulate-serrate; apex acuminate to bluntly acuminate. Flowers axillary or subterminal; solitary; 4-10 cm in diam. Pedicel 2-10 mm; pubescent; bracteoles 2; ovate to broadly ovate; 1-1.5 x 1.5-2 cm; outside densely yellow sericeous. Sepals 9-11; suborbicular; 2-3(-4) cm in diam.; thickly leathery; outside yellowish sericeous; margin membranous; apex rounded to retuse. Petals 5 or 6; white; broadly obovate; 4-5 x 2-3 cm; outside yellowish sericeous; inside glabrous; margin membranous; apex emarginate. Stamens numerous; ca. 1.5 cm; glabrous; outer filament whorl basally slightly connate and adnate to petals. Ovary densely yellowish tomentose; 3-6-loculed with 2-5 ovules per locule; style 3-6; pubescent basally to middle; connate to near apex. Capsule globose to oblate; 2-8 cm in diam.; 3-6-loculed with 2-5 seeds per locule; dehiscent from base; pericarp 1-5 mm thick when dry; woody; yellow tomentose; columella persistent. Seeds brown; oblong; laterally compressed; ca. 2.5 cm; shiny. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 30.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 300-1500 m. S Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; S Hunan; S Jiangxi [N Vietnam].