Camellia furfuracea(Merr.) Cohen-Stuart

WFO wfo-0000582353 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. a Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-06 / obs. 17508306
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. b Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12025208
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32515089
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17508292
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12025209
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32515079
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17508301
Camellia furfuracea, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12039476

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1249797
Filed as
Camellia furfuracea (Merr.) Cohen-Stuart
Det. by
Chang, Ho T.
Collected
F. A. McClure 1922-05-14
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Camellia furfuracea is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam China SoutheastHainanTaiwanLaosThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Camellia furfuracea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Laos LAO ASIA-TROPICAL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Camellia bolovenensis (Gagnep.) Hung T.Chang & S.X.Ren
  • Camellia furfuracea var. lutea Hu
  • Camellia latipetiolata C.W.Chi
  • Camellia oblata Hung T.Chang & B.M.Barthol.
  • Camellia parafurfuracea S.Ye Liang ex Hung T.Chang
  • Camellia polypetala Hung T.Chang
  • Camellia pubisepala D.Fang
  • Camellia suaveolens C.X.Ye, X.J.Wang & X.G.Shi
  • Thea bolovenensis Gagnep.
  • Thea furfuracea Merr.
  • Theopsis furfuracea (Merr.) Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.