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Luffa

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Taxon taxon Q232909
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Luffa

Summary

Luffa is a taxon[1]. Luffa ranks in the top 0.39% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,313 views/month, #758 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Luffa's image is recorded as Luffa aegyptica.jpg[3].
  • Luffa's image is recorded as Luffa operculata 07.JPG[4].
  • Luffa's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Luffa's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Luffa's parent taxon is recorded as Sicyoeae[7].
  • Luffa's taxon name is recorded as Luffa[8].
  • Luffa's GND ID is recorded as 4370152-8[9].
  • Luffa's Commons category is recorded as Luffa[10].
  • Luffa's pronunciation audio is recorded as Q232909-ar.ogg[11].
  • Luffa's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D029776[12].
  • Luffa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ky1q[13].
  • Luffa's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.875.800.575.912.250.300.522[14].
  • Luffa's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3669[15].
  • Luffa's ITIS TSN is recorded as 22387[16].
  • Luffa's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2874598[17].
  • Luffa's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Luffa[18].
  • Luffa's Tropicos ID is recorded as 40009669[19].
  • Luffa's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 30179638-2[20].
  • Luffa's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • Luffa's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 73(1)[22].
  • Luffa's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • Luffa's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as plant/luffa[24].
  • Luffa's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=7024[25].
  • Luffa's Flora of North America taxon ID is recorded as 119075[26].
  • Luffa's Flora of China ID is recorded as 119075[27].

Why It Matters

Luffa ranks in the top 0.39% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,313 views/month, #758 of 195,241).[2] Luffa has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Luffa is known by 34 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Tropicos. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . International Plant Names Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Flora of China. Retrieved . 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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