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Alternanthera

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Taxon taxon Q2840398
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Alternanthera

Summary

Alternanthera is a taxon[1]. Alternanthera ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month, #1,568 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alternanthera's image is recorded as Starr 030523-0122 Alternanthera pungens.jpg[3].
  • Alternanthera's image is recorded as Alternanthera philoxeroides NRCS-1.jpg[4].
  • Alternanthera's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Alternanthera's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Alternanthera's parent taxon is recorded as Gomphrenoideae[7].
  • Alternanthera's taxon name is recorded as Alternanthera[8].
  • Alternanthera's Commons category is recorded as Alternanthera[9].
  • Alternanthera's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03rnnf[10].
  • Alternanthera's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 169520[11].
  • Alternanthera's ITIS TSN is recorded as 20763[12].
  • Alternanthera's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 11854709[13].
  • Alternanthera's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3084921[14].
  • Alternanthera's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 415030[15].
  • Alternanthera's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alternanthera[16].
  • Alternanthera's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40010999[17].
  • Alternanthera's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 327196-2[18].
  • Alternanthera's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 25(2)[19].
  • Alternanthera's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as plant/Alternanthera[20].
  • Alternanthera's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=463[21].
  • Alternanthera's Flora of North America taxon ID is recorded as 101216[22].
  • Alternanthera's Flora of China ID is recorded as 101216[23].
  • Alternanthera's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as ALTER2[24].
  • Alternanthera's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'joyweed'}[25].
  • Alternanthera's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '莲子草属'}[26].
  • Alternanthera's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '莲子草属'}[27].

Why It Matters

Alternanthera ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month, #1,568 of 195,241).[2] Alternanthera has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Alternanthera is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . International Plant Names Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Flora of North America. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Flora of China. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 25(2). wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: 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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