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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
black tea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO Catalogue (2009) Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 2002) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) 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)
cay	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
caya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) 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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chaha soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
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	Traditional 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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chá, folha não fermentada	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
chá-da-índia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chá-preto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
common tea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
frunză de ceai verde	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
green	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
green tea	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 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 Plants (Wiersema, 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)
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)
powdered decaffeinated green tea extract	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
roheline tee	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012)
sencha tea	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
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)
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 Plants (Wiersema, 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) Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO Catalogue (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) The Plant-Book (Mabberley, 1996) 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 plant	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
tea polyphenols from green tea	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019)
tea soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teabush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
teaplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
tee	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
teestrauch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Kräuter Gewürze und Heilpflanzen (Bremness, 1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
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)
thayilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
thé noir	Other	Les Plantes 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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996) 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 Plants (Wiersema, 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 Plants (Wiersema, 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	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ཇ་ཤིང་།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf	fermented leaf	Les Plantes Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Leaf		Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 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		Traditional 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)
Leaf		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
leaves		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019)
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	Traditional 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) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019) Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze	EMA Com. Monog.: Camellia sinensis, non ferm. fol. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) 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) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (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) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) 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.) O. K.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze.	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Kräuter Gewürze und Heilpflanzen (Bremness, 1994) Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) The Plant-Book (Mabberley, 1996) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O.K.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Camellia sinensis (Linnaeus) O.Kuntze	ISO Catalogue (2009)
Camellia sinensis Kuntze	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Camellia sinensis Kuntze.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Camellia sinensis var. sinensis	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Camellia thea L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Camellia thea Link	Les Plantes Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Camellia thea Link.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Thea sinensis	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 2002) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Thea sinensis L.	A Check-list of the Korean Cultivated Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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