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Here, a Linnaean specimen of\n                    <jats:italic>Thea bohea<\/jats:italic>\n                    at LINN,\n                    <jats:italic>Linnaeus C. 152<\/jats:italic>\n                    , was designated as the epitype of\n                    <jats:italic>T. sinensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    to avoid potential confusion. This specimen was also selected as the neotype of\n                    <jats:italic>T. viridis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , a heterotypic synonym of\n                    <jats:italic>C. sinensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic>Camellia sinensis var. niaowangensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>T. cantoniensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>T. chinensis var. pubescens<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>T. oleosa<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>T. parvifolia<\/jats:italic>\n                    are treated as new heterotypic synonyms of\n                    <jats:italic>C. sinensis var. pubilimba<\/jats:italic>\n                    , one of the infraspecific taxa of tea.\n                    <jats:italic>Thea parvifolia<\/jats:italic>\n                    is neotypified, and\n                    <jats:italic>T. chinensis var. pubescens<\/jats:italic>\n                    is lectotypified here.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/phytokeys.271.173297","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,10]],"date-time":"2026-03-10T11:42:49Z","timestamp":1773142969000},"page":"251-258","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Typification and new synonyms of tea (Camellia sinensis, Theaceae) and one of its infraspecific taxa"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"271","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7761-7127","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Dongwei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8472-1275","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Shixiong","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"173297_B1","unstructured":"Chang HT (1981) Thea\u2014A section of beveragial tea-trees of the genus Camellia. 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