茶组植物的分类历史与思考

Thinking on the Taxonomy of Camellia sect.Thea

茶组植物是重要的经济植物,也是山茶属内分类学问题最多的类群,由于形态性状的多样性和连续性,其组的分类学范围和物种的界定均存在不少的争议。系统地回顾了茶组植物分类的历史,并基于植物分类学者的立场,对造成茶组植物分类学混乱的原因及如何改进,提出了自己的观点。

Camellia sect.Thea,a group of high economic value,is extremely complicated in taxonomy because of the diversity and the continuity of interspecies morphological characters.There exist lots of controversies of current classification systems about sectional taxonomic circumscription and species definition.Here the taxonomic history of Sect.Thea was systematically reviewed.Some taxonomists’views on the causes of the taxonomic confusion and how to improve the taxonomy were also presented.