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Taxon:  Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze



Summary
Genus:
Camellia
Subgenus:
Thea
Section:
Thea
Family:
Theaceae
Tribe:
Theeae
Nomen number:
8732
Place of publication:
Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 10:195. 1887
Verified:
12/12/2005 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. assamica (J. W. Mast.) Kitam. (0 active accession[s])
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. sinensis (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Thea bohea L.
Thea viridis L.
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  3. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  6. Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Camellia+sinensis&quantity=1
  8. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  9. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  10. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
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  14. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
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  17. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  18. Meyer, F. G. et al. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. 1994
  19. Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). 1965 Note: = Thea sinensis
  20. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
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  24. Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. Flora of Thailand. 1970-
  25. Steward, A. N. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. 1958
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Common names
English
black tea –
common tea –
green tea –
Japanese tea –
tea –
teabush –
teaplant –
French
arbre à thé –
thé –
théier –
German
Teestrauch –
India
cha –
chai –
Japanese Rōmaji
cha-no-ki –
Portuguese
chá-da-Índia –
Portuguese (Brazil)
chá –
chá-preto –
Spanish
árbol del té –
té –
Swedish
te –
Transcribed Chinese
cha –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnans.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAssam 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaIndochina  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar n.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand n.
2Cultivated    widely cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan (s.)]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Assam]
  • INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar (n.), Thailand (n.)
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Human food
beverage base (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:55. 2000) –
Medicines
folklore (source of caffeine & theophylline fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Social
stimulant (fide Pl Book; Pl Res SEAs 16:55. 2000) –


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