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Arboa berneriana

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ17558500 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arboa berneriana is a shrub or tree that grows in the wet tropics of northern Madagascar. It has varying ranges of colors from yellow to orange to red.

Previously, A. berneriana was classified as Turnera berneriana, Erblichia berneriana, and Piriqueta berneriana . Phylogenetic analysis of Turneroideae, however, suggested it should be classified as Arboa.

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

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q17558500. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arboa berneriana” 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.