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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 247-256.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2019.03.002

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Proposal to Replace the Illegitimate Name of Tea Garden Weeds in China

WU Huiping1, QI Meng1, LI Yeyun2*, MA Huiqin1, WU Xun1   

  1. 1. School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China;2. College of Tea and Food Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
  • Received:2018-08-23 Revised:2019-01-23 Online:2019-06-15 Published:2019-06-15
  • Contact: WU Huiping1,,E-mail:huiping.whp@163.com

Abstract: Checklist information of the published names of tea garden weeds in China was compiled based on relevant references published from 1959 to 2018 and field investigations. The published species names were confirmed based on checklist information. The illegitimate names were identified and revised by the methods of supplement, correction and replacement according to authentic and domestic identification literatures. The results show that there were 517 illegitimate names in these literatures, with 331 illegitimate names transferred to legitimate names after revision. Compare to previous reports, there were 170 new records of weed species of tea garden in China which belonged to 129 genera and 46 families. In this paper, with the addition of previous legitimate names, totally 412 tea garden weed species, 8 varieties were recorded, which belonged to 251 genera and 72 families in China. The top 10 tea garden weeds based on their reporting frequencies were Conyza canadensis, Imperata cylindricaa and Digitaria sanguinalis, etc. relevant references published from 1959 to 2018 and field investigations. The published species names were confirmed based on checklist information. The illegitimate names were identified and revised by the methods of supplement, correction and replacement according to authentic and domestic identification literatures. The results show that there were 517 illegitimate names in these literatures, with 331 illegitimate names transferred to legitimate names after revision. Compare to previous reports, there were 170 new records of weed species of tea garden in China which belonged to 129 genera and 46 families. In this paper, with the addition of previous legitimate names, totally 412 tea garden weed species, 8 varieties were recorded, which belonged to 251 genera and 72 families in China. The top 10 tea garden weeds based on their reporting frequencies were Conyza canadensis, Imperata cylindricaa and Digitaria sanguinalis, etc.

Key words: tea garden, weeds, illegitimate name, revise, species

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