Asclepias

Summary

Asclepias is a taxon^[1]. Asclepias ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,622 views/month, #652 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Asclepias's image is recorded as Asclepiascommon.JPG^[3].
• Asclepias's instance of is recorded as taxon^[4].
• Asclepias's taxon rank is recorded as genus^[5].
• Asclepias's parent taxon is recorded as Asclepiadinae^[6].
• Asclepias's taxon name is recorded as Asclepias^[7].
• Asclepias's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85085374^[8].
• Asclepias's Commons category is recorded as Asclepias^[9].
• Asclepias's taxonomic type is recorded as Asclepias syriaca^[10].
• Asclepias's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D031108^[11].
• Asclepias's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02fk2v^[12].
• Asclepias's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.875.800.575.912.250.456.500.153^[13].
• Asclepias's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 21199^[14].
• Asclepias's ITIS TSN is recorded as 30240^[15].
• Asclepias's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 70995^[16].
• Asclepias's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3170229^[17].
• Asclepias's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 415083^[18].
• Asclepias's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Asclepias^[19].
• Asclepias's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40020570^[20].
• Asclepias's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 30005968-2^[21].
• Asclepias's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[22].
• Asclepias's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 63^[23].
• Asclepias's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[24].
• Asclepias's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[25].
• Asclepias's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/milkweed^[26].
• Asclepias's taxon synonym is recorded as Polyotus^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Asclepias include Chrysochus asclepiadeus^[28], a taxon^[29].

Why It Matters

Asclepias ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,622 views/month, #652 of 195,241).^[2] Asclepias has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Asclepias is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for Asclepias include Chrysochus asclepiadeus^[28], a taxon^[29].