- Family : THEACEAE
(Tea Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHAAY FAMILY (चाय फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : THEACEAE
- Basionym : Thea sinensis L.
- Synonym(s) : Camella thea Link
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze
- Common name : Tea plant, Common tea
- Vernacular name : Theyilai (Tamil); Cha (Oria); Theyaka (Telugu); Chaikapatta (Hindi); Tea gida (Kannada); Chaya, Theyila (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Raised in plantations
- Comments / notes : Often in cultivation on hilly slopes of higher elevations. Sometimes as an escape from cultivation into wild.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Cultivated
- World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia, China, Indo-China
- Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Camellia sinensis. Downloaded on 9 December 2024.
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