Camellia grijsii Hance

Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Year-old branchlets grayish brown, glabrescent; current year branchlets grayish white pubescent. Petiole 5-10 mm, pubescent or glabrous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3.5-9 × 2-4.5 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially pale green, reddish punctate, sparsely appressed pubescent when young but glabrescent except villous along midvein, and becoming yellowish brown when dry, adaxially dark green, shiny, and glabrous, secondary veins 6 or 7 on each side of midvein, secondary and reticulate veins abaxially raised and adaxially very impressed, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, margin serrulate to sharply serrulate, apex bluntly acute to shortly acuminate. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary, fragrant, 3-5 cm in diam., subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 7 or 8, caducous, brown, thinly leathery, outside white pubescent near apex, inside glabrous, margin ciliolate; outer 2 or 3 bracteoles and sepals lunate to semiorbicular, 2-4 mm; inner 5 bracteoles and sepals sepaloid, suborbicular, 6-10(-12) mm. Petals 5 or 6, white, obovate, 1.5-3.5 × (1-)1.5-2.5 cm, distinct, apically 2-parted for 5-10 mm. Stamens 7-10 mm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally unequally connate for 5-7 mm. Ovary globose, yellowish tomentose; style 3-4 mm, glabrous, 3-parted to near base or middle. Capsule oblate, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam., 1-3-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule. Seeds brown, semiorbicular to globose. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct.

Fujian, NW Guangdong, N Guangxi, Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, E Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang.

● Forests, thickets; 100-1500 m.

Camellia grijsii is a species of plant in the family Theaceae. It is endemic to China. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Camellia grijsii est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Theaceae.

Sơn trà Mân Ngạc (danh pháp hai phần: Camellia grijsii) là một loài thực vật thuộc chi Trà. Đây là loài bản địa Trung Quốc. Nó bị đe dọa mất môi trường sống.

长瓣短柱茶（学名：Camellia grijsii）为山茶科山茶属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的福建、湖北、四川、广西、江西等地，生长于海拔200米至1,300米的地区，见于山坡林缘、山谷林下、山坡、林中、林缘、路边、山坡林中、林缘灌丛、山谷、沟边、山坡疏林中和溪边，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。