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Ctenium elegans

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5191630 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ctenium elegans is an annual grass species in the genus Ctenium from African savanna areas. It is distributed from Senegal to the Sudan and grows on sandy soils of the South Sahelian and North Sudanian zones.

Uses

The stems are used as materials for roof thatching and for making households products such as baskets, mats and brooms. Less known for use as grazing fodder.

References

External links

Ctenium elegans in West African plants – A Photo Guide.

Editorial summary

“Ctenium elegans” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ctenium, elegans 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 77-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 Ctenium, elegans and species.
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“Ctenium elegans” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ctenium, elegans 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 Jul 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5191630. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ctenium elegans” 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.