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Melaleuca

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Taxon taxon Q606617
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Melaleuca

Summary

Melaleuca is a taxon[1]. Melaleuca ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (985 views/month, #1,336 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Melaleuca's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Melaleuca is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Melaleuca belongs to the parent taxon Myrtaceae[5].
  • Melaleuca is endemic to Australia[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Melaleuca is Melaleuca[7].
  • Melaleuca's Commons category is recorded as Melaleuca[8].
  • Melaleuca's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Melaleuca[9].
  • Melaleuca's Commons gallery is recorded as Melaleuca[10].
  • Melaleuca's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 53(1)[11].
  • Melaleuca's taxon synonym is recorded as Billottia[12].
  • Melaleuca's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=7400[13].
  • Melaleuca's this taxon is source of is recorded as cajeput oil[14].
  • Melaleuca is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'melaleuca'}[15].
  • Melaleuca is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '白千层属'}[16].
  • Melaleuca is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '白千层属'}[17].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Melaleuca is Melaleuca[7]. Melaleuca is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Melaleuca belongs to the parent taxon Myrtaceae[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'melaleuca'}[15], {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '白千层属'}[16], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '白千层属'}[17].

Distribution

Melaleuca is endemic to Australia[6].

Identifiers

Melaleuca's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 72232[18]. Melaleuca's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 164925[19]. Melaleuca's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1327063[20]. Melaleuca's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3175449[21]. Melaleuca's ITIS TSN is recorded as 27227[22].

Why It Matters

Melaleuca ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (985 views/month, #1,336 of 195,241).[2] Melaleuca has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Melaleuca is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . powo.science.kew.org. powo.science.kew.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . powo.science.kew.org. Retrieved . powo.science.kew.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 53(1). wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    This taxon is source of → cajeput oil
    Parent taxon → Myrtaceae
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007563006805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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