Cactaceae

family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
Taxon taxon Q14560
Cactaceae
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Cactaceae

Summary

Cactaceae is a taxon[1]. Cactaceae ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,655 views/month, #383 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cactaceae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Cactaceae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Cactaceae belongs to the parent taxon Caryophyllales[5].
  • Cactaceae is classified within Centrospermae[6].
  • Cactaceae belongs to the parent taxon Ficoidales[7].
  • Cactaceae belongs to the parent taxon Opuntiales[8].
  • Cactaceae belongs to the parent taxon Portulacineae[9].
  • Cactaceae is classified within Cactineae[10].
  • Cactaceae's scientific name is Cactaceae[11].
  • Cactaceae's Commons category is recorded as Cactaceae[12].
  • The taxonomic type of Cactaceae is Cactus[13].
  • Cactaceae's Unicode character is recorded as 🌵[14].
  • Cactaceae began on 1789[15].
  • Cactaceae began on -35000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Cactaceae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cacti[17].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[18].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao[19].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 52(1)[22].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • Cactaceae's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[27].

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Classification

Cactaceae's scientific name is Cactaceae[11]. Cactaceae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Caryophyllales[5], Centrospermae[6], Ficoidales[7], Opuntiales[8], Portulacineae[9], and Cactineae[10]. The taxonomic type of Cactaceae is Cactus[13]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '선인장과'}[28], {'lang': 'th', 'text': 'วงศ์โบตั๋น'}[29], {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'サボテン'}[30], {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'صبار'}[31], {'lang': 'bn', 'text': 'ক্যাক্\u200cটাস'}[32], and {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Kakteengewächse'}[33].

Identifiers

Cactaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47903[34]. Cactaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3593[35]. Cactaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4228[36]. Cactaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2519[37]. Cactaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 19685[38].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Cactaceae include Izu Shaboten Zoo[39], a zoo[40], in Japan[41], founded in 1959[42].

Why It Matters

Cactaceae ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,655 views/month, #383 of 195,241).[2] Cactaceae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Cactaceae is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Entities named for Cactaceae include Izu Shaboten Zoo[39], a zoo[40], in Japan[41], founded in 1959[42].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien (ed. 9). wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida (“Angiospermae”). wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Genera Plantarum (Jussieu). wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [35] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [38] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [36] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [37] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . 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] . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] . wikidata.org.
  36. [34] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [42] . 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. [43] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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