Commemorates A. Cleyer, physician and botanist, Dutch Director of Commerce 1683–88.
Trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or minutely toothed. Leaf stalk short. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in axillary clusters on thick stalks. Sepals 5, unequal with hairy margins. Petals 5, fused shortly at the base. Stamens about 25 in one ring; anthers bristled, joined to the filaments at the base. Ovary 2-3 chambered, roundish, berry-like with numerous seeds.
Seed, layering or softwood cuttings.
Bristled anthers.
8 species Himalayas to Japan, and C America, Mexico to Panama and West Indies.
Kobuski (1937, 1941).
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.
Updated by: Rob Cross, January 2018
