Plant Details

Accepted name:: Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze [Theaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 4

Camellia sinensis var. dehungensis (Hung T.Chang, H.S.Wang & B.H.Chen) T.L.Ming

Camellia sinensis var. pubilimba Hung T.Chang

Camellia sinensis var. sinensis

Camellia sinensis var. assamica (Royle ex Hook.) Steenis

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
arbre à thé	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
black tea	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO Catalogue (2009) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ca	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
caha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
camelliae non fermentatum folium	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
camelliae sinensidis folium	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 2) (DKRI, 2011) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
cay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
caya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cha soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cha-no-ki	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chaai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
chaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chaha soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chai sabz	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
chai siyah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chaika thai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chaipati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chavika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chay-e-khatayi	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
chaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
china tea	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
chinese tea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chá	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chá shù gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chá, folha não fermentada	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
chá-da-índia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chá-preto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cold tea	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
cold tea leaves	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
common tea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
daun teh	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
daunteh	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 2) (DKRI, 2011)
enteh	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
frunză de ceai verde	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
green	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
green leaf tea	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
green tea	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO Catalogue (2009) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
groene thee	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
grøn te	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
grønn te	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
grünteeblätter	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
ja shing	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
japanese tea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
karupputteyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kininių arbatmedžių nefermentuoti lapai	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
kαμελλίας (tεΐας) της σινικής φύλλο πράσινο	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
liść herbaty chińskiej niefermentowany (herbata zielona)	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
longjing tea	Other	Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015)
matcha tea	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
nallateyaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nefermentirani list čajevca	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
pachaitteyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pinyin	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok teh	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
powdered decaffeinated green tea extract	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
pu erh cha	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
roheline tee	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
sencha tea	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
shaahi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shaayi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shay	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
shay akhdar	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
shān chá kē	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shān chá shǔ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
souchong	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
syamaparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
te	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
te aħdar	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
tea	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO Catalogue (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
tea aele	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tea leaf	Other	Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015)
tea plant	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
tea polyphenols from green tea	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
tea shrub	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tea soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teabush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
teaplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tee	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
teestrauch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
teh	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teyaaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teyaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teyila	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thae	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
thaeyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
thayilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
the	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
thea sinensis	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
theae folium	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
thesoppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
theyaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
theyale	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
theyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thé	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
thé noir	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
thé vert (feuille de)	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
théier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
tiyaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tè	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
tè verde (foglia)	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
té	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
té verde, hoja de	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
tējas krūma nefermentētas lapas	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
vihreätee	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
zöld tea levél	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
árbol del té	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
čajovníkový list nefermentovaný	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
čajovníkový list, nefermentovaný	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
зелен чай	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
رضخأ ياش	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
ياش	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
چاي ختائي	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ཇ་ཤིང་།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
‫شاي‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
山茶属	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
山茶科	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
绿茶	Other	Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015)
茶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茶叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茶子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茶树根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茶膏	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茶花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙井茶	Other	Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf	fermented leaf	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Leaf		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
non fermentatum folium		EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
Leaf		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
leaf	powdered extract from young, unfermented leaf and leaf buds	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
Leaf		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
leaves and root		Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
Roots, Flower		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Leaf, Root	Dry leaf, Fermented leaf, Oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Leaves		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaf		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
leaves, buds		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaf		Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015)
leaves		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
leaves		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
leaves, leaf buds		U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
leaves		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
leaf		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf	powdered extract	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
leaf	powdered extract from young, unfermented leaf and leaf buds	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Camellia thea Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 73 (1822), nom. superfl.
Thea sinensis L. Sp. Pl.: 515 (1753).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Camelia sinensis	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Camelia sinensis (L.) Kuntze	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)
Camellia sinensis	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Geographical Indications for Med. Pl. (Brinckmann, 2015) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. sinensis	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze.	Ethnobot. of Swat Valley, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2018)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O. K.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze.	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O.K.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 2) (DKRI, 2011)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Camellia sinensis (Linn.) O. Kuntze.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Camellia sinensis (Linnaeus) O.Kuntze	ISO Catalogue (2009)
Camellia sinensis Kuntze	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Camellia sinensis Kuntze.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Camellia sinensis Linn.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Camellia sinensis O Ktunze	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Camellia sinensis var. sinensis	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Camellia sinesis L.	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
Camellia thea L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Camellia thea Link	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Camellia thea Link.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Thea sinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Thea sinensis L.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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