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Cereus

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Taxon taxon Q5317148
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Cereus

Summary

Cereus is a taxon[1]. Cereus ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month, #1,538 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cereus's image is recorded as Cereus hexagonus closeup.JPG[3].
  • Cereus's image is recorded as Cereus-peruvians1.jpg[4].
  • Cereus's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Cereus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Cereus's parent taxon is recorded as Cereeae[7].
  • Cereus's parent taxon is recorded as Cereinae[8].
  • Cereus's taxon name is recorded as Cereus[9].
  • Cereus's Commons category is recorded as Cereus[10].
  • Cereus's taxonomic type is recorded as Cactus hexagonus[11].
  • Cereus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0s9899b[12].
  • Cereus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 153845[13].
  • Cereus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 19877[14].
  • Cereus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 38008[15].
  • Cereus's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 61918[16].
  • Cereus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3084079[17].
  • Cereus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cereus (plant)[18].
  • Cereus's Commons gallery is recorded as Cereus[19].
  • Cereus's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40004727[20].
  • Cereus's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 60437289-2[21].
  • Cereus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • Cereus's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=2318[23].
  • Cereus's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as CEREU[24].
  • Cereus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'sweetpotato cactus'}[25].
  • Cereus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'pałczak'}[26].
  • Cereus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '仙人柱属'}[27].

Why It Matters

Cereus ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month, #1,538 of 195,241).[2] Cereus has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Cereus 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] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Das große Kakteen-Lexikon. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . A farewell to dated ideas and concepts: molecular phylogenetics and a revised suprageneric classification of the family Cactaceae. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Das große Kakteen-Lexikon. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . International Plant Names Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. 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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