Camellia tenii Sealy

Shrubs 1-3 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets red, slender, pubescent, indumentum persisting to following year. Petiole 2-3 mm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5-3.5(-4.2) × (1.2-)1.5-2.3 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and glabrous, adaxially dark green, shiny, and hirtellous along midvein, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially slightly raised, secondary veins visible or slightly raised on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex obtuse to bluntly acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 9 or 10, semiorbicular to suborbicular, leathery, outside ± pubescent, inside glabrous, margin broadly membranous. Petals 6 or 7, white, obovate to obovate-elliptic, 6-10 × 5-6 mm, basally connate for 1.5-3 mm, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 30, 6-9 mm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for ca. 3 mm. Gynoecium 8-9 mm. Ovary ovoid, white tomentose; styles 3, distinct, 5-7 mm, glabrous. Capsule oblate, 1-1.2 cm in diam., 1- or 2-loculed with 1 seed per locule; pericarp ca. 1 mm thick, leathery. Seeds pale brown, pubescent. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Aug-Sep.

Yunnan (Dayao).

● Thickets; 400-1500 m.

Camellia tenii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Theaceae. Loài này được Sealy mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1949.

大姚短柱茶（学名：Camellia tenii）是山茶科山茶属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南等地，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。