Amaranthus

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q156344
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Amaranthus

Summary

Amaranthus is a taxon[1]. Amaranthus ranks in the top 0.17% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31,099 views/month, #326 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Amaranthus's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Amaranthus is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Amaranthus is classified within Amaranthoideae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Amaranthus is Amaranthus[6].
  • Amaranthus is used for leaf vegetable[7].
  • Amaranthus's Commons category is recorded as Amaranthus[8].
  • The taxonomic type of Amaranthus is Amaranthus caudatus[9].
  • Amaranthus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Amaranthus[10].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[11].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[12].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[14].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.[16].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 25(2)[19].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[20].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21].
  • Amaranthus's described by source is recorded as Q12049440[22].
  • Amaranthus's taxon synonym is recorded as Mengea[23].
  • Amaranthus's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=484[24].
  • Amaranthus is commonly known as pigweed[25].
  • Amaranthus is commonly known as Qaratərə[26].
  • Amaranthus is commonly known as laskavec[27].

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Classification

Amaranthus's scientific name is Amaranthus[6]. Amaranthus is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Amaranthus is classified within Amaranthoideae[5]. The taxonomic type of Amaranthus is Amaranthus caudatus[9]. Recorded taxon common name include pigweed[25], Qaratərə[26], laskavec[27], Amarant[28], Amaranth[29], and Amarantos[30].

Identifiers

Amaranthus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52326[31]. Amaranthus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3564[32]. Amaranthus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 37601[33]. Amaranthus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3085074[34]. Amaranthus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 20715[35].

Why It Matters

Amaranthus ranks in the top 0.17% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31,099 views/month, #326 of 195,241).[2] Amaranthus has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Amaranthus is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX538276
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX538276"
  2. 6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Apni id → 85012, 85475, 85001
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P5984]]: 85001, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269298|batch #269298]]"
  3. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Saint-Sigismond
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q293108, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0322284-laskavec
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0322284-laskavec, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → leaf vegetable
    Instance of → taxon
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Topic's main category → Category:Amaranthus
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 25788, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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