Lolium

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q158509
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Summary

Lolium is a taxon[1]. Lolium ranks in the top 0.76% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,717 views/month, #1,477 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Loliinae[4]
  • Taxon name: Lolium[5]
  • Commons category: Lolium[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Lolium perenne[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lolium[8]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[9], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(2)[15], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[16], Encyclopedia Tatarica[17]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=6936[18]
  • Taxon common name: ryegrass[19], jílek[20], Rajgræs[21], Lolch[22], Weidelgras[23], Raiheinät[24], Ivraie[25], Rýgresi[26], ドクムギ属[27], Svidrė[28], Raaigras[29], Çim[30], пијанка[31], 黑麦草属[32]
  • Has fruit type: caryopsis[33]

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Identifiers

Lolium's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52800[34]. Lolium's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4520[35]. Lolium's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 47160777[36]. Lolium's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2706217[37]. Lolium's ITIS TSN is recorded as 40891[38].

Why It Matters

Lolium has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Lolium is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [35] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [38] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [36] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [37] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(2). wikidata.org.
  35. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292634
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0400272-jilek
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → taxon
    Topic's main category → Category:Lolium
    Has fruit type → caryopsis
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 15398, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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