生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small trees; the young branchlets densely covered with soft hairs becoming glabrescent with age.
• Leaves oblong-landeolate, 6–9 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, apex acuminate, base acute or obtuse; petioles 2 mm long.
• Flowers sub-terminal, shortly pedicellate; sepals 7–8, linear-lanceolate, inner ones 1.7–2.2 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, with long white or brown hairs; petals 5–7, subrounded, 1.7–2.5 cm long, 1.3–2.2 cm wide, apex acuminate, base truncate, hairy outside; stamens numerous, monadelphous, villous; ovary 1.5 mm across, densely villous; styles 1.2–2 cm long, densely villous, stigmas 2-fid.
• Capsule globose, the apex cuspidate, 2–2.5 cm across.
• This variety is characterized by its longer sepals and larger petals. Geographically, it is confined to the southern part of Taiwan and far away from the habitats of <i>Camellia salicifolia</i> var. <i>salicifolia</i>.

分布

• 台灣 : in the southern part of the island.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Weiliaoshan (Mt. Wiliu), Su 616, 617, 618.