Shrub. Branchlets slender, long haired. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, tapering to a pointed tip, mostly hairy at first. Bracts 4-5, densely hairy on the back. Flowers white, petals 5-6 often with pointed lobes at the tips, mostly hairy on the back. Filaments fused into a tube for more than half their length, hairy. Ovary hairy. Capsule mostly 1-seeded.
China, Taiwan
Leaves mostly narrowly lanceolate, hairy below; stamens fused into a deep tube, hairy.
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.