Cynosurus

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q976046
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Cynosurus

Summary

Cynosurus is a taxon[1]. Cynosurus ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,627 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cynosurus's image is recorded as Cynosurus cristatus (kamgras bloeiend).jpg[3].
  • Cynosurus's image is recorded as Cynosurus-cristatus-close1.JPG[4].
  • Cynosurus's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Cynosurus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Cynosurus's parent taxon is recorded as Cynosurinae[7].
  • Cynosurus's taxon name is recorded as Cynosurus[8].
  • Cynosurus's Commons category is recorded as Cynosurus[9].
  • Cynosurus's taxonomic type is recorded as Cynosurus cristatus[10].
  • Cynosurus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cdngs[11].
  • Cynosurus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 211938[12].
  • Cynosurus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 41623[13].
  • Cynosurus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 108133[14].
  • Cynosurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2704393[15].
  • Cynosurus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cynosurus[16].
  • Cynosurus's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40020187[17].
  • Cynosurus's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 17838-1[18].
  • Cynosurus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • Cynosurus's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(2)[20].
  • Cynosurus's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=3290[21].
  • Cynosurus's Flora of North America taxon ID is recorded as 108998[22].
  • Cynosurus's VASCAN ID is recorded as 1068[23].
  • Cynosurus's Flora of China ID is recorded as 108998[24].
  • Cynosurus's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as CYNOS2[25].
  • Cynosurus's GrassBase ID is recorded as gen00164[26].
  • Cynosurus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Dogstail grass'}[27].

Why It Matters

Cynosurus ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month, #1,627 of 195,241).[2] Cynosurus has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Cynosurus is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 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] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Database of Vascular Plants of Canada. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Flora of China. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GrassBase. 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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