Alnus

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q25239
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Alnus

Summary

Alnus is a taxon[1]. Alnus ranks in the top 0.45% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,210 views/month, #877 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alnus received the Tree of the Year (Austria)[3].
  • Alnus's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Alnus is classified at the rank of genus[5].
  • Alnus is classified within Betuloideae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Alnus is Alnus[7].
  • Alnus is a type of tree[8].
  • Alnus's Commons category is recorded as Alnus[9].
  • Alnus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alnus[10].
  • Alnus's Commons gallery is recorded as Alnus[11].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as England in Particular[13].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 21[14].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[18].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[20].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[21].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Q19133013[22].
  • Alnus's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[23].
  • Alnus's taxon synonym is recorded as Alnaster[24].
  • Alnus's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=437[25].
  • Alnus's this taxon is source of is recorded as alder[26].
  • Alnus is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'alder'}[27].

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Classification

Alnus's scientific name is Alnus[7]. Alnus is classified at the rank of genus[5]. Alnus is classified within Betuloideae[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'alder'}[27], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Els'}[28], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'olsza'}[29], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'olcha'}[30], {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'ontano'}[31], and {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '桤木属'}[32].

Identifiers

Alnus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 53352[33]. Alnus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3515[34]. Alnus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 107300[35]. Alnus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2876099[36]. Alnus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 19466[37].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Alnus include Ixelles[38], a municipality of Belgium[39], in Belgium[40]; Vilkha[41], a combat vehicle model[42], founded in 2016[43]; Oleśnica[44], an urban municipality of Poland[45], in Poland[46]; and Allerød Municipality[47], a municipality of Denmark[48], in Denmark[49], founded in 1970[50], headquartered in Lillerød[51].

Why It Matters

Alnus ranks in the top 0.45% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,210 views/month, #877 of 195,241).[2] Alnus has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] Alnus is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

Entities named for Alnus include Ixelles[38], a municipality of Belgium[39], in Belgium[40]; Vilkha[41], a combat vehicle model[42], founded in 2016[43]; Oleśnica[44], an urban municipality of Poland[45], in Poland[46]; and Allerød Municipality[47], a municipality of Denmark[48], in Denmark[49], founded in 1970[50], headquartered in Lillerød[51].

FAQs

What awards did Alnus receive?

Honors received include Tree of the Year (Austria)[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [34] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [37] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [35] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [36] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [31] . Treccani's Enciclopedia on line. wikidata.org.
  34. [32] . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 21. wikidata.org.
  35. [33] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [41] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [47] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [48] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [50] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [51] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    This taxon is source of alder
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