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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

1) Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Camellia bohea (L.) Sweet, Camellia thea Link, Thea bohea L., Thea sinensis L., Thea sinensis L. var. bohea (L.) C. Koch, Thea sinensis L. var. viridis (L.) Pierre.

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2) Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. sinensis is another plant having the following synonyms: Camellia arborescens Hung T. Chang & F.L. Yu, Camellia bohea (L.) Sweet, Camellia bohea L., Camellia longlingensis F.C. Zhang, G.B. Chen & M.D. Tang, Camellia oleosa (Lour.) Rehder, Camellia sinensis fo. formosensis Kitam., Camellia sinensis fo. macrophylla (Siebold) Kitam., Camellia sinensis fo. parvifolia (Miq.) Sealy, Camellia sinensis var. waldenae (S.Y. Hu) Hung T. Chang, Camellia sinensis var. waldeniae (S.Y. Hu) Hung T. Chang, Camellia thea Link, Camellia theifera Griff., Camellia waldenae S.Y. Hu, Camellia waldeniae S.Y. Hu, Thea bohea L., Thea cantoniensis Lour., Thea chinensis Sims, Thea cochinchinensis Lour., Thea grandifolia Salisb., not Hayata, Thea olearia Lour. ex Gomes, Thea oleosa Lour., Thea parvifolia Salisb., Thea sinensis L., Thea sinensis var. bohea (L.) C. Koch, Thea sinensis var. macrophylla Siebold, Thea sinensis var. parvifolia Miq., Thea sinensis var. viridis (L.) Pierre, Thea viridis L., Theaphylla cantonensis (Lour.) Raf., Theaphylla cantoniensis Raf..

References regarding Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. sinensis for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Flora Cochinchinensis (1790)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Berolinensis Altera (1822)
· Medical Flora (1830)
· Sylva Tellur. (1838)
· Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada (1887)
· Wild Fl. Hong Kong (1977)
· Taxonomy of the genus Camellia (1981)
· Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni (1981)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)

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