Shrub to small tree. Leaves variable. Flowers mostly small but up to 6 cm wide in varieties, petals mostly 7-8 but rapidly shed, virtually free, silky hairy below. Stamens fused at the base, mostly less than 1 cm long. Ovary hairy. Styles divided into 3. Fruit obovate, mostly to about 2 cm wide,1-3 chambered, hairy.
China, India, SE Asia
Small mostly fragrant flowers with rapidly shed petals.
Source: (1997). Camellia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
