Identidad taxonómica
- Scientific name
- Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze
- Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
- Camellia sinensis
- Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
- (L.) Kuntze
- Common names
- Japanese tea, Tea, Tea camellia, black tea, chai, common tea, green tea, teabush, teaplant
Names in other languages (59)
Camélia de Chine, Ceai, Chá ·chá-da-índia, Cây chè, Herbata chińska, Kininis arbatmedis, Mchai, Pianta del Tè, Planta de té, Planta do chá, Tea (EN), Tee, Teepflanze, Teepõõsas, Teestrauch, Teestrauch (DE), Theestruik, Thé, Théier, Tè, arbre à thé, cha, cha-no-ki, chá, chá-da-Índia, chá-preto, te, tebusk, teepensas, teestruik, teh, thé, théier, té, zhu, árbol del té, çay, čajovník čínsky, čajovník čínský, Камелия китайская, Камелія китайська, Чай, Чай · ча́йный куст, Чай китайський, Чайне дерево, Чайний кущ, Чайный куст, Чэй ыарҕата, चाय, चिया, চাহ, තේ, ชา, ၼဵင်ႈ · ယိုဝ်ႉ, チャノキ, チャノキ（茶の木）, 茶树, 茶樹, 茶樹 · 茶树, 차나무 - Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
- Plantae
- Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
- Tracheophyta
- Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
- Magnoliopsida
- Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
- Ericales
- Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
- Theaceae
- Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
- Camellia
- Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
- sinensis
- Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
- species
- Reference species
- Camellia sinensis
- Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
- accepted name
Photos and conservation status
- IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
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Data deficient (DD)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-30 17:14.
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Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-30 17:14.