taxonID	type	description	language	source
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Morphologically, the new species is similar to Camellia pubipetala Y. Wan & S. Z. Huang, C. mingii S. X. Yang and C. tuyenquangensis D. V. Luong, N. N. H. Le & N. Tran, but it differs from these species in having glabrous young branches, glabrous petiole, glabrous sepals, glabrous petals, glabrous stamens and glabrous ovary, 10 petals, cylindrical ovary and 3 - lobed to 1 / 6 style length.	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	materials_examined	Type. China. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Debao County, Jingde Town, Tuoliang village, at the entrance of one of karst caves, rare, 23 ° 29 ' 23.12 " N, 106 ° 9 ' 47.27 " E, 760 m a. s. l., 13 January 2017 (fl.), R. C. Hu HRC 170113002 (holotype: GXMI!, isotypes: GXMI!, KUN!, NHMG! and IBK!).	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs, 1 - 3 m tall. Young branches cylindrical, thick, glabrous, yellowish brown or grayish brown, and current year branchlets purplish red. Leaf blade leathery, ovate to long ovate, 6 - 13 x 3 - 5 cm, adaxial surface dark green and glabrous, abaxial surface pale green, brown glandular punctuate and veins sparsely spreading villous, veins abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 5 - 6 on each side of midvein and connected at the proximal edge, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex caudate tip, margin serrulate; petiole 5 - 12 mm long, glabrous. Flowers subterminal axillary, solitary, 3 - 4.5 cm diam. Pedicel ca. 4 (- 6) mm long, thick; bracteoles 4 (or 5), unequal, 1 - 3 x 2 - 4 mm, appressed and covering pedicel, oval-triangle, leathery, green and glabrous, margin ciliolate. Sepals 5 (- 6), semiorbicular to broadly ovate, 3 - 5 x 5 - 8 mm, leathery, glabrous, lightly yellow and occasionally with pink patches, fruiting stage green, margin ciliolate. Petals 10, in three whorls of 3 - 4 petals, golden yellow, glabrous; outer 3 or 4 petals suborbicular, occasionally with pink patches, 0.7 - 1.1 x 1 cm; inner orbicular-ovate or oval, 1.2 - 1.8 x 1.2 - 2.6 cm, basally connate for 1 - 3 mm. Stamens numerous, glabrous, ca. 2 cm long; anthers ca. 3 x 1 mm; outer filaments connate ca. basal 1 / 4, ca. 1.6 cm, inner filaments nearly distinct, ca. 1.7 cm. Ovary cylindrical, ca. 2 mm in diam., glabrous, 3 - loculed; style 2 cm long, glabrous, base connate, apex 3 - lobed to 1 / 6 style length. Capsule triangle oblate, glabrous, 1.4 - 1.6 x 1.6 - 2.8 cm; Seeds brown, hemispherical, pubescent.	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Camellia debaoensis grows at the entrance of one of the limestone caves in the karst region of Debao County (Fig. 3), Guangxi, China, accompanied by Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) R. M. King & H. Robinson (Compositae), Boehmeria penduliflora Wedd. ex Long (Urticaceae), Fallopia multiflora (Thunb.) Harald (Polygonaceae), Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Voigt (Euphorbiaceae), Pteris vittata L. (Pteridaceae), Ficus tikoua Bur (Moraceae), and Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen et S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa et Predeep (Fabaceae).	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined. China. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Debao County, Jingde Town, Tuoliang village, at the entrance of karst cave, rare, ca. 760 m a. s. l., 13 Jan. 2017 (fl.), R. C. Hu HRC 170113001 (GXMI!); the same locality, 21 May 2016 (fr.), R. C. Hu HRC 170521001 (GXMI!); the same locality, 25 Dec. 2015 (fl.), R. C. Hu & Y. Q. Liufu HRC 151225023 (GXMI!).	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
1B2A2CD96EC85FE0B38DA5503A72D38F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the type locality, Debao County, Guangxi.	en	Hu, Renchuan, Wei, Sujuan, Liufu, Yongqing, Nong, Yunkai, Fang, Wei (2019): Camellia debaoensis (Theaceae), a new species of yellow camellia from limestone karsts in southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 49-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.38756
