A Theaceae occurs as family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs & trees recognizable by their toothed, commonly glossy leaves. A Theaceae is a portion of sequentially Ericales, in the branch of the dicots known as a Asterids. A select few phytologist include a Theaceae in a personal Ternstroemiaceae, or vice-versa.

A better known genus is Camellia, which includes the plant whose leaves come utilized to create tea (Camellia sinensis), when well as a many species grown widely for their flowers and handsome foliage.

Virtually all of the genera come indigene to Malesia and Southeast Asia, with many genera inside South America and Central America; two genera (Franklinia and Gordonia) also use coinage indigen to the southeastern United States, with Franklinia existence endemic there.

Virtually all of the genera stand evergreen foliage, but Stuartia and Franklinia are deciduous.

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