Tea, as a kind of healthy drink, is loved by many people. But its function and effect vary from different varieties. Therefore, it is of great significance to find a fast, easy and simple method for the identification of tea varieties. In order to classify different tea varieties quickly and accurately, fuzzy uncorrelated discriminant c-means clustering algorithm (FUDCM) was proposed based on the fuzzy uncorrelated discriminant transformation (FUDT) algorithm and fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) algorithm in this paper. FUDCM can extract the fuzzy uncorrelated discriminant information from spectral data dynamically in the process of fuzzy clustering. To start with, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) data of three kinds of tea samples (i. e. Emeishan Maofeng, high quality Leshan trimeresurus and low quality Leshan trimeresurus) was collected using FTIR-7600 spectrometer in the wave number range of 4 001.569～401.121 1 cm-1,. Secondly, multiple scattering correction (MSC) was applied to preprocess these spectra. Thirdly, principal component analysis (PCA) was employed to reduce the dimensionality of spectral data from 1 868 to 20 and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was used to extract the identification information of the spectral data. Finally, FCM and FUDCM were performed to identify the tea varieties respectively. The experimental results showed that when the weight index m=2, the clustering accuracy rate of FCM was 63.64% and that of FUDCM was 83.33%. After 67 iterations, FCM achieved convergence while FUDCM did that after only 17 iterations. Tea varieties could be quickly and efficiently identified by combining FTIR technology with PCA, LDA and FUDCM, and the identification accuracy of FUDCM was higher than that of FCM.