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Curcuma

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q33551

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 16(2), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6][7][8][9]
Different from
Ostryż (Pogórze Rożnowskie)[12]
Parent taxon
Zingiberaceae[3]
Taxon common name
curcuma, 姜黄属, 姜黄属[10][11]
Taxon name
Curcuma[4]
Taxon rank
genus[2]
Taxonomic type
Curcuma longa[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Curcuma ar كركم cs kurkuma cs Curcuma cs kurkumovník fa کورکوما fa زنجبیل، زردچوبه fi Curcuma fi kurkumat ja ウコン属 ja クルクマ ja クルクマ属 ko 울금속 ms temu ms Curcuma ms koma-koma nl Indiase geelwortel nl koenier nl koenjit pl Curcuma
🔖 Identifiers · 42
GND ID
4259606-3
OpenAlex ID
C2777230291
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Curcuma alismatifolia1.jpg ↗
APNI ID
90654, 51300646
African Plant Database ID
189840
BOLD Systems taxon ID
179704
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
curcuma
Catalogue of Life ID
8VWLZ
EPPO Code
1CURG
Flora of Australia ID (new)
Curcuma
Flora of China ID
108706
Flora of North America taxon ID
108706
Show all 42 identifiers +30
Freebase ID
/m/02_56m
GBIF taxon ID
2757518
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Curcuma
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2125605
INaturalist taxon ID
119267
IPNI plant ID
331178-2
IRMNG ID
1277982
ITIS TSN
42393
Interlingual Index ID
i101964
MeSH descriptor ID
D030024
MeSH tree code
B01.875.800.575.912.250.618.937.900.166
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777230291
NCBI taxonomy ID
99568
NL CR AUT ID
ph776523
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007538328805171
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
06b74d9b-f0a7-45cd-b6fb-5d46147d9de1
Open Tree of Life ID
253149
Plants of the World Online ID
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331178-2
Queensland Biota ID
20528
Quora topic ID
Curcuma
Reddit topic ID
curcuma
Reflora ID
FB609221
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
materias/1014597
Topic's main category
Category:Curcuma
Tropicos ID
40018450
USDA PLANTS ID
CURCU
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
12376772-n
World Flora Online ID
wfo-4000010089
Yale LUX ID
concept/0e085bd7-020d-449b-9284-d3c583d4893a

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 89
Curcuma longa, Curcuma zedoaria, Curcuma aromatica, Curcuma amada, Curcuma zanthorrhiza, Curcuma alismatifolia, Curcuma caesia, Curcuma aeruginosa +81 more
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Zingiberaceae
Taxon rank 1
genus
Taxonomic type 1
Curcuma longa
Topic's main category 1
Category:Curcuma
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Curcuma
← Found in taxon 1
myrtenol
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Summary

Curcuma is a taxon[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 16(2). wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    APNI ID → 90654, 51300646
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  2. 11w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual Index ID → i101964
    WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 12376772-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomic type → Curcuma longa
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Parent taxon → Zingiberaceae
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007538328805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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