Olea

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q296910
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Summary

Olea is a taxon[1]. Olea ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,757 views/month, #1,516 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Oleaceae[4]
  • Taxon name: Olea[5]
  • Subclass of: tree[6]
  • Commons category: Olea[7]
  • Taxonomic type: Olea europaea[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Olea[9]
  • Commons gallery: Olea[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[14], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[15], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 61[17], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[18]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=8414[19]
  • Taxon common name: olive[20], 木犀榄属[21], 木樨榄属[22], oljka[23]
  • Different from: Olea[24]
  • Has fruit type: drupe[25]
  • Fruit color: blue[26]
  • Homonymous taxon: Olea[27]

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Identifiers

Olea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 57145[28]. Olea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4145[29]. Olea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 58239[30]. Olea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3172244[31]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 32989[32], 77998[33], and 32988[34].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Olea include 9242 Olea[35], an asteroid[36].

Why It Matters

Olea has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Olea is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for Olea include 9242 Olea[35], an asteroid[36].

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. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [29] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [32] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [31] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [19] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [20] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [21] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 61. wikidata.org.
  26. [22] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  27. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [26] ↑ . powo.science.kew.org. powo.science.kew.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 32989, 77998, 32988
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 32988, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 32989, 77998, 32988
    Sitelink count → 55
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'co', 'commons',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 77998, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i101679
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 12321142-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  4. 17w ago · ACorrêa (WMB) · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Oleaceae
    Subclass of → —
    Taxonomic type → Olea europaea
    Homonymous taxon → Olea
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37019|batch #37019]]: add Reflora ID (P10701)"
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