Acer

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q42292
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Acer

Summary

Acer is a taxon[1]. Acer ranks in the top 0.51% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month, #1,005 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Acer's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Acer is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Acer is classified within Hippocastanoideae[5].
  • Acer is classified within Aceraceae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Acer is Acer[7].
  • Acer is a type of broad-leaved tree[8].
  • Acer's Commons category is recorded as Acer[9].
  • Acer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Maple[10].
  • Acer's Commons gallery is recorded as Acer (genus)[11].
  • Acer's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as genus=Acer[12].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[14].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[16].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao[18].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 46[20].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[21].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[24].
  • Acer's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • Acer's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=66[26].
  • Acer's this taxon is source of is recorded as maple wood[27].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Acer is Acer[7]. Acer is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Hippocastanoideae[5] and Aceraceae[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'maple'}[28], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Esdoorn'}[29], {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '槭属'}[30], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '槭属'}[31], {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '枫属'}[32], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '槭树属'}[33].

Identifiers

Acer's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4022[34]. Acer's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 37290[35]. Acer's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3189834[36]. Acer's ITIS TSN is recorded as 28727[37].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Acer include Mapleton[38], a city in the United States[39], in United States[40], founded in 1856[41] and 8833 Acer[42], an asteroid[43].

Why It Matters

Acer ranks in the top 0.51% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month, #1,005 of 195,241).[2] Acer has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Acer is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

Entities named for Acer include Mapleton[38], a city in the United States[39], in United States[40], founded in 1856[41] and 8833 Acer[42], an asteroid[43].

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. [34] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [37] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [35] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [36] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 46. wikidata.org.
  33. [31] . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [32] . Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III. wikidata.org.
  35. [33] . Species cataloging of the seed plants in Zhejiang, East China. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [43] . 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. [44] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Described by source Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +10
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