Carduus

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q254502
Carduus
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Carduus

Summary

Carduus is a taxon[1]. Carduus ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month, #1,540 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Carduus's image is recorded as Musk thistle.jpg[3].
  • Carduus's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Carduus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Carduus's parent taxon is recorded as Cynareae[6].
  • Carduus's taxon name is recorded as Carduus[7].
  • Carduus's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85020250[8].
  • Carduus's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16556319k[9].
  • Carduus's Commons category is recorded as Carduus[10].
  • Carduus's taxonomic type is recorded as Carduus nutans[11].
  • Carduus's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D031177[12].
  • Carduus's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40577[13].
  • Carduus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05b_1z[14].
  • Carduus's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.875.800.575.912.250.100.168[15].
  • Carduus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 92905[16].
  • Carduus's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph849183[17].
  • Carduus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 35783[18].
  • Carduus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 59551[19].
  • Carduus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 251998[20].
  • Carduus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3114511[21].
  • Carduus's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 426029[22].
  • Carduus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Carduus[23].
  • Carduus's Commons gallery is recorded as Carduus[24].
  • Carduus's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40001402[25].
  • Carduus's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 8095-1[26].
  • Carduus's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Why It Matters

Carduus ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month, #1,540 of 195,241).[2] Carduus has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Carduus is known by 10 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] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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