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Cryptolepis sinensis

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ5190969 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cryptolepis sinensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Taiwan, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan) and southeast Asia (Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam).

Cryptolepis sinensis is one of the food sources for the common crow (Euploea core), a common butterfly found in South Asia. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network – (GRIN) [Data from 07-Oct-06].

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“Cryptolepis sinensis” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cryptolepis, sinensis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 68-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 Cryptolepis, sinensis and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5190969. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cryptolepis sinensis” 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.