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Camellia sinensis Kuntze

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Thea sinensis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 515. 1753.

"Habitat in Japonia, China." RCN: 3882.

Replaced synonym of: Thea bohea L. (1762), nom. illeg.

Lectotype (Bartholomew in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 93. 1993): [icon] “Tsja” in Kaempfer, Amoen. Exot. Fasc.: 605, 606. 1712.

Generitype of Thea Linnaeus.

Current name: Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T), pp. 878-905 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 884, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kuntze
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Ericales
Family
Theaceae
Genus
Camellia
Species
sinensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Camellia sinensis (Linnaeus, 1762) sec. Jarvis, 2007