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Ampelocissus indica

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ15558917 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ampelocissus indica is a plant in the Vitoideae subfamily of the grape family native to the India and Sri Lanka.

Description

The plant is a climbing shrub, with tuberous root and reddish stem.

Uses

The root is used for curing various inflammatory skin ailments, swellings, pustules, and carbuncles.

Editorial summary

“Ampelocissus indica” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ampelocissus, indica 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 48-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 Ampelocissus, indica and species.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15558917. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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A general summary may omit uncertainty, sample limits or methodological disagreement that is explicit in the technical record. 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 “Ampelocissus indica” 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.