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Melissa

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Taxon taxon Q920402
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Melissa

Summary

Melissa is a taxon[1]. Melissa ranks in the top 0.72% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (259 views/month, #1,415 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Melissa's image is recorded as Melissa officinalis01.jpg[3].
  • Melissa's image is recorded as Melissa officinalis1.jpg[4].
  • Melissa's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Melissa's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Melissa's parent taxon is recorded as Salviinae[7].
  • Melissa's taxon name is recorded as Melissa[8].
  • Melissa's Commons category is recorded as Melissa (Lamiaceae)[9].
  • Melissa's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D031334[10].
  • Melissa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0929lb[11].
  • Melissa's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.875.800.575.912.250.583.520.474[12].
  • Melissa's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 39170[13].
  • Melissa's ITIS TSN is recorded as 32564[14].
  • Melissa's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 71171[15].
  • Melissa's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2927330[16].
  • Melissa's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Melissa (Lamiaceae)[17].
  • Melissa's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40016562[18].
  • Melissa's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 21015-1[19].
  • Melissa's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 66[20].
  • Melissa's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • Melissa's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=7434[22].
  • Melissa's Flora of North America taxon ID is recorded as 120163[23].
  • Melissa's VASCAN ID is recorded as 1406[24].
  • Melissa's Flora of China ID is recorded as 120163[25].
  • Melissa's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as MELIS[26].
  • Melissa's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'balm'}[27].

Why It Matters

Melissa ranks in the top 0.72% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (259 views/month, #1,415 of 195,241).[2] Melissa has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Melissa is known by 8 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] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Database of Vascular Plants of Canada. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Flora of China. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. 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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