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Justicia

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Taxon taxon Q2046390
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Justicia

Summary

Justicia is a taxon[1]. Justicia ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (263 views/month, #1,571 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Justicia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Justicia is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • James Justice is named after Justicia[5].
  • Justicia is classified within Justiciinae[6].
  • Justicia's scientific name is Justicia[7].
  • Justicia's Commons category is recorded as Justicia[8].
  • The taxonomic type of Justicia is Justicia hyssopifolia[9].
  • Justicia's has basionym is recorded as Gendarussa[10].
  • Justicia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Justicia (plant)[11].
  • Justicia's taxon synonym is recorded as Jacobinia[12].
  • Justicia's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=6233[13].
  • Justicia is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'water-willow'}[14].
  • Justicia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '黑爵床属'}[15].
  • Justicia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '爵床属'}[16].
  • Justicia's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL is recorded as https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/hawaiianflora/genusdescr.cfm?genus=Justicia[17].

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Classification

Justicia's scientific name is Justicia[7]. Justicia is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Justicia belongs to the parent taxon Justiciinae[6]. The taxonomic type of Justicia is Justicia hyssopifolia[9]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'water-willow'}[14], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '黑爵床属'}[15], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '爵床属'}[16].

Discovery and Description

James Justice is named after Justicia[5].

Identifiers

Justicia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 50152[18]. Justicia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4190[19]. Justicia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 37344[20]. Justicia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2904597[21]. Justicia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 34351[22].

Why It Matters

Justicia ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (263 views/month, #1,571 of 195,241).[2] Justicia has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Justicia is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [20] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III. wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Taxon rank → genus
    Taxon synonym → Jacobinia
    Has basionym → Gendarussa
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007538517105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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