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Heliconia

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Heliconia

Summary

Heliconia is a taxon[1]. Heliconia ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (786 views/month, #1,432 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Heliconia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Heliconia is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Heliconia belongs to the parent taxon Heliconiaceae[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Heliconia is Heliconia[6].
  • Heliconia's Commons category is recorded as Heliconia[7].
  • Heliconia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Heliconia[8].
  • Heliconia's Commons gallery is recorded as Heliconia[9].
  • Heliconia's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • Heliconia's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 16(2)[11].
  • Heliconia's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=5481[12].
  • Heliconia is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'heliconia'}[13].
  • Heliconia is commonly known as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Helikoniat'}[14].
  • Heliconia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '蝎尾蕉属'}[15].
  • Heliconia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '蝎尾蕉属'}[16].
  • Heliconia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '赫蕉属'}[17].
  • Heliconia's different from is recorded as Helliconia[18].
  • Heliconia's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[19].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Heliconia is Heliconia[6]. Heliconia is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Heliconia belongs to the parent taxon Heliconiaceae[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'heliconia'}[13], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Helikoniat'}[14], {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '蝎尾蕉属'}[15], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '蝎尾蕉属'}[16], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '赫蕉属'}[17].

Identifiers

Heliconia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 84964[20]. Heliconia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4653[21]. Heliconia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 35074[22]. Heliconia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2760545[23]. Heliconia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 42386[24].

Why It Matters

Heliconia ranks in the top 0.73% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (786 views/month, #1,432 of 195,241).[2] Heliconia has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Heliconia is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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. [21] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [24] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [23] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 16(2). wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III. wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Heliconiaceae
    Instance of → taxon
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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