Camellia viridicalyx Hung T. Chang & S. Ye Liang
Habit: shrub
Plant Height (m): 1-3 m
Elevation (m): 400-850 m
Distribution: China: Guangxi, Hunan
Young Branch: pubescent, tenuous
Leaf upper surface: midrib hairy
Leaf texture: leathery
Leaf lower surface: glabrous, tuberculate
Leaf length (cm): 3.5-5.5 cm
Leaf width (cm): 1.2-1.7 cm
Leaf shape: lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate
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): 0.2-0.3 cm
Bractlet number: 4-5
Bractlet position: covers the pedicel
Bractlet shape: broadly ovate, suborbicular
Branchlet length (mm): 1-2 mm
Bractlet hairiness: glabrous outside, pubescent inside, pubescent outside, margin ciliated
Sepal: leathery
Sepal number: 5
Sepal shape: broadly ovate, suborbicular, lower 1/2 part connate into cup-shaped
Sepal hairiness: glabrous outside, margin ciliated, pubescent inside, pubescent outside
Petal hairiness: pubescent outside
Filaments hairiness: upper part villose
Filaments: lower half of outer filaments connate, not forming a tube
Ovary: glabrous
Ovary locus: 3-locular
Style: 3-cleft
Fruit shape: orbicular
Fruit diameter (cm): 1.8 cm
Seed number per locule: 1, 2