Camellia pubipetala Y. Wan & S. Z. Huang

Shrubs or trees, 1.5-5.5 m tall. Second-year branches brown hirsute; current year branchlets gray spreading villous. Petiole 5-10 mm, yellowish brown villous to brown hirsute; leaf blade elliptic-ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, 10-17 × 5-8 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green, brown glandular punctate, appressed villous but densely spreading villous along midvein, and becoming yellowish brown to brown when dry, adaxially dark green, shiny, and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, base rounded to subtruncate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary, 5-6 cm in diam., subsessile. Bracteoles (4-)6-8, lunate to semiorbicular, 2.5-7 mm, crustaceous, outside gray puberulent, inside glabrous, margin scarious and ciliolate. Sepals 5 or 6, ± persistent, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 1.3-1.5 cm, crustaceous, outside gray puberulent, inside glabrous, margin scarious and ciliolate. Petals 9-13, lemon yellow; outer 4 or 5 petals broadly obovate, 2-2.5 cm; inner petals obovate-elliptic to long obovate, 3-4 cm, outside gray puberulent, basally connate for 3-5 mm. Stamens numerous, 2.5-3 cm; outer filament whorl connate for basal ca. 1/3, distinct part pilose. Ovary yellowish tomentose, 3(or 4)-loculed; style 3 or 4 grooved, apically 3(or 4)-lobed to -parted for 5-10 mm. Capsule oblate with 3 longitudinal grooves, ca. 3.5 cm in diam., 3-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule. Seeds dark brown, semiglobose to globose. Fl. Jan-Feb, fr. Oct. 2n = 30*.

Guangxi (Daxin, Long’an).

● Forests on calcareous hill; 200-400 m.

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

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

毛瓣金花茶（学名：Camellia pubipetala）是山茶科山茶属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广西等地，见于石灰岩上的常绿林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。