Camellia cupiformis T. L. Ming
Habit: shrub
Plant Height (m): 3 m
Elevation (m): 1600 m
Distribution: China: Yunnan
Young Branch: pubescent
Leaf upper surface: midrib hairy
Leaf texture: leathery
Leaf lower surface: glabrous, midrib hairy, tuberculate
Leaf length (cm): 5-7.5 cm
Leaf width (cm): 1.8-2.5 cm
Leaf shape: oblong-elliptic, elliptic
Leaf margin: serrulate
Leaf apex: caudate
Leaf base: broadly-cuneate
Petiole length (mm): 2-3 mm
Petiole: pubescent
Flower: solitary, 2-5 flowers clustered
Flower position: axillary, subterminal
Pedicel length (cm): 0.7 cm
Pedicel hairiness: glabrous, pubescent
Bractlet number: 3
Bractlet: persistent
Bractlet position: near the middle of pedicel
Bractlet shape: ovate
Branchlet length (mm): 0.5-1 mm
Bractlet hairiness: pubescent outside, sericeous on both sides
Sepal: persistent
Sepal number: 5
Sepal shape: suborbicular, semiorbicular
Sepal hairiness: glabrous inside, margin ciliated, pubescent outside
Ovary: glabrous
Ovary shape: orbicular
Ovary locus: 3-locular
Style length (mm): 10 mm
Style: 3-cleft