Malus hupehensis

{{Short description|Species of apple tree}}

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| image = Malus hupehensis at Treborth.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rhodes, L. |author2=Maxted, N. |date=2016 |title=Malus hupehensis |volume=2016 |page=e.T34901A50670723 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T34901A50670723.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Malus hupehensis

| authority = (Pamp.) Rehder 1933 not Koidz. 1934

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/rjp-3634 The Plant List, Malus hupehensis (Pamp.) Rehder ]

| synonyms =

• Malus domestica var. hupehensis (Pamp.) Likhonos
• Malus theifera Rehder
• Pyrus hupehensis Pamp. 1910
• Pyrus theifera (Rehder) Cardot
• Pyrus theifera (Rehder) L.H.Bailey

}}

Malus hupehensis, common names Chinese crab apple,{{PLANTS|id=MAHU2|taxon=Malus hupehensis|accessdate=27 January 2016}} Hupeh crab{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17 }} or tea crabapple, is a species of flowering plant in the apple genus Malus of the family Rosaceae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8106071#page/219/mode/1up Rehder, Alfred. 1933. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 14(3): 207]

It is native to China.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010903 Flora of China, Malus hupehensis (Pampanini) Rehder, 1933. 湖北海棠 hu bei hai tang ]