sweet potato

species of plant
Taxon taxon Q37937
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sweet potato

Summary

sweet potato is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.12% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,692 views/month, #238 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • sweet potato's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • sweet potato is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • sweet potato's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Data Deficient[5].
  • sweet potato belongs to the parent taxon Ipomoea[6].
  • sweet potato's scientific name is Ipomoea batatas[7].
  • sweet potato is a type of useful plant[8].
  • sweet potato is a type of annual plant[9].
  • sweet potato is a type of vegetable[10].
  • sweet potato is used for fodder[11].
  • sweet potato is used for medicinal plant[12].
  • sweet potato is used for vegetable[13].
  • sweet potato's Commons category is recorded as Ipomoea batatas[14].
  • sweet potato's Unicode character is recorded as 🍠[15].
  • sweet potato's has basionym is recorded as Convolvulus batatas[16].
  • sweet potato's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ipomoea batatas[17].
  • sweet potato's Commons gallery is recorded as Ipomoea batatas[18].
  • sweet potato's external data available at URL is recorded as https://www.gbif.org/dataset/31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4[19].
  • sweet potato's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[20].
  • sweet potato's described by source is recorded as Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao[21].
  • sweet potato's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 64(1)[22].
  • sweet potato's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • sweet potato's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[24].
  • sweet potato's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=20142[25].
  • sweet potato's this taxon is source of is recorded as Saccharum Granorum[26].
  • sweet potato's this taxon is source of is recorded as sweet potato[27].

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Classification

sweet potato's scientific name is Ipomoea batatas[7]. It is classified at the rank of species[4]. It is classified within Ipomoea[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'sweetpotato'}[28], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '甘藷'}[29], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '地瓜'}[30], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}[31], {'lang': 'ne', 'text': 'सखरखण्ड'}[32], and {'lang': 'vi', 'text': 'khoai lang'}[33].

Identifiers

sweet potato's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4120[34]. sweet potato's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 580962[35]. sweet potato's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2928551[36]. sweet potato's ITIS TSN is recorded as 30764[37].

Why It Matters

sweet potato ranks in the top 0.12% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,692 views/month, #238 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 161 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Botanique. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. Retrieved . gbif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [34] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [37] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [35] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [36] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes. wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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