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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Camellia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Camellia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Theanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Theales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 12. 17 Sep 1833.       Subordo  Theineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 150. Mai 1898.       Familia  Theaceae D. Don pub. Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 224. 26 Jan-1 Feb 1825, nom. cons. common name: Teas       Subfamilia  Camellioideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 827, 1120. Jun 1835.       Tribus  Camellieae (DC.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 47. 1829.       Genus  Camellia L. pub. (1753) common name: camellia

Named members of the Genus Camellia

1	Species  japonica L. common name: Japanese camellia
2	Species  sasanqua Thunb. common name: Sasanqua camellia
3	Species  sinensis (L.) Kuntze common name: tea
	4    Varietas  assamica (J. Masters) Kitam. common name: Assam tea 5    Varietas  sinensis common name: tea
6	Species  thea Link syn. Camellia sinensis var. sinensis
7	Species  theifera Griffith syn. Camellia sinensis var. sinensis

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.