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Taxon:
Camellia sinensis
(L.) Kuntze var.
assamica
(J. W. Mast.) Kitam.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
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.
dehungensis
(H. T. Chang & B. H. Chen) T. L. Ming
(0 active accession[s])
Camellia sinensis
(L.) Kuntze var.
pubilimba
Hung T. Chang
(0 active accession[s])
Camellia sinensis
(L.) Kuntze var.
sinensis
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Thea assamica
J. W. Mast.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Camellia assamica
(J. W. Mast.) W. Wight
Camellia assamica
(J. W. Mast.) W. Wight var.
assamica
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Camellia assamica
(J. W. Mast.) Hung T. Chang var.
kucha
(Hung T. Chang & H. S. Wang) Hung T. Chang & H. S. Wang
Camellia kucha
(Hung T. Chang) Hung T. Chang
Camellia multisepala
Hung T. Chang et al.
Camellia sinensis
(L.) Kuntze var.
kucha
Hung T. Chang & H. S. Wang
Camellia theifera
Griff.
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Reference(s)
Chen, L. & S. Yamaguchi.
2002. Genetic diversity and phylogeny of tea plant (
Camellia sinensis
) and its related species and varieties in the section
Thea
genus
Camellia
determined by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. J. Hort. Sci. Biotechnol. 77:729-732.
Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica&quantity=1
Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
Hara, H. et al.
1978-1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Kaundun, S. S. & S. Matsumoto.
2003. Development of CAPS markers based on three key genes of the phenylpropanoid pathway in Tea,
Camellia sinensis
(L.) O. Kuntze, and differentiation between
assamica
and
sinensis
varieties. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106:375-383.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Sharma, B. D. et al., eds.
1993-. Flora of India.
Singh, D. & P. Singh Ahuja.
2006. 5S rDNA gene diversity in tea (
Camellia sinensis
(L.) O. Kuntze) and its use for variety identification. Genome 49:91-96.
Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds.
1970-. Flora of Thailand.
Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Wambulwa, M. C. et al.
2016. Insights into the genetic relationships and breeding patterns of the African tea germplasm based on nSSR markers and cpDNA sequences. Front. Plant Sci. 7: Art. 1214, pages 1-12.
URL:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Plant_Science
Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) A:72.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
Assam tea –
Reference(s)
German
Assam-Teestrauch –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
pu er cha –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guangdong Sheng
s.
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu
s.
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Hainan Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Yunnan Sheng
s.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Assam
n.e.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Laos
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar
n.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
n.
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
[Guangdong Sheng (s.), Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (s.), Hainan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng (s.)]
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
[Assam (n.e.)]
INDO-CHINA:
Laos
,
Myanmar
(n.),
Thailand
(n.)
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
beverage base
mainly processed as black tea
Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) A:72.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Name
References