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Calamagrostis arundinacea

Species of grass

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Calamagrostis arundinacea is a species of bunch grass in the family Poaceae, native to Eurasia, China and India. Under its synonym Calamagrostis brachytricha it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Calamagrostis arundinacea” as species of grass. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Calamagrostis, arundinacea and Species.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 34-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Calamagrostis, arundinacea and Species providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Calamagrostis arundinacea”, the useful work is to connect “species of grass” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Aug 16, 2025.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. 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 “Calamagrostis arundinacea” 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.