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Saussurea

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Taxon taxon Q1421617
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Saussurea

Summary

Saussurea is a taxon[1]. Saussurea ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (103 views/month, #1,579 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Saussurea's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Saussurea is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Nicolas Théodore de Saussure is named after Saussurea[5].
  • Saussurea is classified within Cynareae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Saussurea is Saussurea[7].
  • Saussurea's Commons category is recorded as Saussurea[8].
  • Saussurea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Saussurea[9].
  • Saussurea's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 78(2)[10].
  • Saussurea's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=10781[11].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'saw-wort'}[12].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Alpenscharte'}[13].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'snow lotus'}[14].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Läätteet'}[15].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'costuswortel'}[16].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Соссюрея'}[17].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'トウヒレン属'}[18].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '风毛菊属'}[19].
  • Saussurea is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '风毛菊属'}[20].
  • Saussurea's has fruit type is recorded as achene[21].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Saussurea is Saussurea[7]. Saussurea is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Saussurea belongs to the parent taxon Cynareae[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'saw-wort'}[12], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Alpenscharte'}[13], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'snow lotus'}[14], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Läätteet'}[15], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'costuswortel'}[16], and {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Соссюрея'}[17].

Discovery and Description

Nicolas Théodore de Saussure is named after Saussurea[5].

Identifiers

Saussurea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 72342[22]. Saussurea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 41629[23]. Saussurea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 38423[24]. Saussurea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2752681[25]. Saussurea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 36074[26].

Why It Matters

Saussurea ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (103 views/month, #1,579 of 195,241).[2] Saussurea has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Saussurea is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [26] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [24] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [25] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 78(2). wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III. Retrieved . efloras.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has fruit type → achene
    Parent taxon → Cynareae
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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