Morphological comparisons of Taiwan native wild tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze forma formosensis Kitamura) and two closely related taxa using numerical methods

Taiwania

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-83

  Su, Mong Huai ^a   Tsou, Chih Hua ^b   Hsieh, Chang Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Camellia sinensis forma formosensis; Native wild tea plant; Numerical taxonomy; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; OTUS;

EID: 34548073015     PISSN: 0372333X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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