Melica

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q158251
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Melica

Summary

Melica is a taxon[1]. Melica ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (69 views/month, #1,604 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Melica's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Melica is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Melica is classified within Pooideae[5].
  • Melica's scientific name is Melica[6].
  • Melica's Commons category is recorded as Melica[7].
  • The taxonomic type of Melica is Melica nutans[8].
  • Melica's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Melica[9].
  • Melica's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[10].
  • Melica's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Melica's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(2)[12].
  • Melica's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[13].
  • Melica's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=7424[14].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'melicgrass'}[15].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Melic'}[16].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Helmikät'}[17].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Перловник'}[18].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Parelgras'}[19].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '臭草属'}[20].
  • Melica is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '臭草属'}[21].
  • Melica's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[22].

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Classification

Melica's scientific name is Melica[6]. Melica is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Melica belongs to the parent taxon Pooideae[5]. The taxonomic type of Melica is Melica nutans[8]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'melicgrass'}[15], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Melic'}[16], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Helmikät'}[17], {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Перловник'}[18], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Parelgras'}[19], and {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '臭草属'}[20].

Identifiers

Melica's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52803[23]. Melica's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 15644[24]. Melica's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 108177[25]. Melica's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2703093[26]. Melica's ITIS TSN is recorded as 41842[27].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Melica include Mélica Muñoz-Schick[28], a botanist[29], b. 1941[30], of Chile[31], specialised in botany[32].

Why It Matters

Melica ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (69 views/month, #1,604 of 195,241).[2] Melica has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Melica is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for Melica include Mélica Muñoz-Schick[28], a botanist[29], b. 1941[30], of Chile[31], specialised in botany[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [24] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [27] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [25] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [26] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(2). wikidata.org.
  23. [21] . Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [23] . wikidata.org.
  25. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . 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. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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