Alocasia

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q644312
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Alocasia

Summary

Alocasia is a taxon[1]. Alocasia ranks in the top 0.67% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (465 views/month, #1,307 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alocasia's image is recorded as P Alom D9903.jpg[3].
  • Alocasia's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Alocasia's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Alocasia's parent taxon is recorded as Colocasieae[6].
  • Alocasia's taxon name is recorded as Alocasia[7].
  • Alocasia's Commons category is recorded as Alocasia[8].
  • Alocasia's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D031055[9].
  • Alocasia's has basionym is recorded as Colocasia sect. Alocasia[10].
  • Alocasia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03q_4m[11].
  • Alocasia's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.875.800.575.912.250.618.050.750.066[12].
  • Alocasia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4455[13].
  • Alocasia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 42556[14].
  • Alocasia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 29254[15].
  • Alocasia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5329822[16].
  • Alocasia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alocasia[17].
  • Alocasia's Commons gallery is recorded as Alocasia[18].
  • Alocasia's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40010592[19].
  • Alocasia's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 1078078-2[20].
  • Alocasia's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • Alocasia's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(2)[22].
  • Alocasia's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=438[23].
  • Alocasia's Flora of North America taxon ID is recorded as 101160[24].
  • Alocasia's Flora of China ID is recorded as 101160[25].
  • Alocasia's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as ALOCA[26].
  • Alocasia's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'taro'}[27].

Why It Matters

Alocasia ranks in the top 0.67% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (465 views/month, #1,307 of 195,241).[2] Alocasia has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Alocasia is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Flora of China. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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