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Acanthopsis

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ8186577 ↗
Source-derived summary

Acanthopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 20 species native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Species

20 species are accepted:

Acanthopsis adamanticola H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis carduifolia (L.f.) Schinz

Acanthopsis disperma Harv. ex Nees

Acanthopsis dispermoides H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis dregeana H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis erosa H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis glabra (Nees) H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis glandulopalmata H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis glauca (Nees) Schinz

Acanthopsis hoffmannseggiana (Nees) C.B.Clarke

Acanthopsis horrida (Nees) Nees

Acanthopsis insueta H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis ludoviciana H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis nitida H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis pagodiformis H.M.Steyn

Acanthopsis scullyi (S.Moore) Oberm.

Editorial summary

“Acanthopsis” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Acanthopsis, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 86-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Acanthopsis, genus and plants.
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Why this record matters

“Acanthopsis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Acanthopsis, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q8186577. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Acanthopsis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.