目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子1份; DNA材料9份;

• 科:山茶科    Theaceae
• 属:山茶属    Camellia
• 种:滇山茶   Camellia reticulata

89. Camellia reticulata Lindley, Bot. Reg. 13: t. 1078. 1827. 滇山茶 dian shan cha Camellia albescens Hung T. Chang; C. albosericea Hung T. Chang; C. albovillosa Hung T. Chang; C. bailinshanica Hung T. Chang et al.; C. bambusifolia Hung T. Chang et al.; C. borealiyunnanica Hung T. Chang; C. brevicolumna Hung T. Chang et al.; C. brevigyna Hung T. Chang; C. brevipetiolata Hung T. Chang; C. chunii Hung T. Chang; C. chunii var. pentaphylax (Hung T. Chang) Hung T. Chang; C. heterophylla Hu; C. jinshajiangica Hung T. Chang; C. kangdianica Hung T. Chang et al.; C. kweichowensis Hung T. Chang; C. oligophlebia Hung T. Chang; C. paucipetala Hung T. Chang; C. pentapetala Hung T. Chang; C. pentaphylacoides Hung T. Chang; C. pentaphylax Hung T. Chang; C. pitardii Cohen-Stuart var. yunnanica Sealy; C. reticulata f. albescens (Hung T. Chang) T. L. Ming; C. reticulata f. simplex Sealy; C. stichoclada Hung T. Chang; C. subliberopetala Hung T. Chang; C. xichangensis Hung T. Chang; C. xylocarpa (Hu) Hung T. Chang; Desmitus reticulata (Lindley) Rafinesque; Thea reticulata (Lindley) Pierre (1887), not Elmer (1915); Yunnanea xylocarpa Hu.Trees or shrubs, (2-)4-15 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets green to pale brown, thick, pubescent but glabrescent. Petiole 6-13 mm, pubescent or glabrescent; leaf blade oblong to oblong-elliptic, rarely elliptic to broadly elliptic, (4-)6-10(-14) × (2.5-)3-5(-6.3) cm, leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely appressed pubescent or glabrescent, adaxially dark green, shiny, and glabrous, midvein yellowish green, abaxially elevated, and adaxially level, secondary veins 6-8 on each side of midvein and raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins visible to slightly raised on both surfaces or adaxially impressed, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or rarely rounded, margin serrulate, apex acute to shortly acuminate and with an obtuse tip. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary or to 3 in a cluster, 7-10 cm in diam. (to more than 20 cm in diam. for some cultivars), subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 9-11, caducous after anthesis, green, imbricate, increasing in size from outer to inner, thinly leathery, both surfaces velutinous, margin narrowly membranous; outer bracteoles and sepals orbicular, 3-5 mm; inner bracteoles and sepals broadly ovate, to 2 cm. Petals 5-7 (often more for some cultivars), rose to pink, rarely almost white, obovate to broadly obovate, 4-6 × 3-4.5 cm (larger for some cultivars), apex emarginate; inner petals connate for ca. 1 cm. Stamens 3-4 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 1-2 cm. Ovary globose, 3-4 mm in diam., tomentose, 3(-5)-loculed; style 2.5-3.5 cm, glabrous or basally with pubescence, apically 3(-5)-lobed or parted. Capsule green turning pale brown, globose to oblate, 3.5-4 × 4-5 cm, 3(-5)-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule; pericarp ca. l cm thick and firmly fleshy when fresh but 5-6 mm and stiffly leathery to woody when dry. Seeds brown, semiglobose to globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*, 60*, 90*.● Forests; 1000-3200 m. W Guizhou, SW Sichuan, Yunnan.This species is cultivated or semicultivated in W Yunnan as a seed oil crop. Selected forms, particularly with large, double or semidouble flowers, have been propagated for hundreds of years as garden plants in Dali, Kunming, Lijiang, Tengchong, and adjacent areas. Some extant cultivars date back to at least the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 C.E.)."Camellia brachygyna" as given in FRPS (49(3): 74. 1998) was a typographical error for C. brevigyna included in synonymy here.【引自：Flora of China】

灌木至小乔木，有时高达15米，嫩枝无毛。叶阔椭圆形，长8-11厘米，宽4-5.5厘米，先端尖锐或急短尖，基部楔形或圆形，上面干后深绿色，发亮，下面深褐色，无毛，侧脉6-7对，在上面能见，在下面突起，边缘有细锯齿，叶柄长8-13毫米，无毛。花顶生，红色，直径10厘米，无柄；苞片及萼片10-11片，组成长2.5厘米的杯状苞被，最下1-2片半圆形，短小，其余圆形，长1.5-2厘米，背面多黄白色绢毛；花瓣红色，6-7片，最外1片近似萼片，倒卵圆形，长2.5厘米，背有黄绢毛，其余各片倒卵圆形，长5-5.5厘米，宽3-4厘米，先端圆或微凹入，基部相连生约1.5厘米，无毛；雄蕊长约3.5厘米，外轮花丝基部1.5-2厘米连结成花丝管，游离花丝无毛；子房有黄白色长毛，花柱长3-3.5厘米，无毛或基部有白色。蒴果扁球形，高4.5厘米，宽5.5厘米，3爿裂开，果爿厚7毫米，种子卵球形，长约1.5厘米。 【引自：中国植物志】