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Taxon:  Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. assamica (J. W. Mast.) Kitam.



Summary
Genus:
Camellia
Subgenus:
Thea
Section:
Thea
Family:
Theaceae
Tribe:
Theeae
Nomen number:
8733
Place of publication:
Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 14:59. 1950
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 (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)
Camellia assamica (Mast.) Hung T. Chang
Camellia theifera Griff.
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Reference(s)
  1. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  2. 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+var.+assamica&quantity=1
  3. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  4. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  5. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  6. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  7. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  8. 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
  9. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
  10. Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. Flora of India. 1993-
  11. Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. Flora of Thailand. 1970-
  12. Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. 1976
  13. Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- A:72. http://proseanet.org
  14. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
Assam tea –
German
Assam-Teestrauch –
Transcribed Chinese
pu er cha –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdongs.
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxis.
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnans.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAssamn.e.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar n.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand n.
2Cultivated    widely cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guangdong (s.), Yunnan (s.), Guangxi (s.), Hainan]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Assam (n.e.)]
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar (n.), Thailand (n.)
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Economic Uses
Human food


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