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Centaurea leptophylla

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ15567411 ↗
Source-derived summary

Centaurea leptophylla, the thin-leaved centaury, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. The IUCN has classified the species as critically endangered. It is native to Turkey.

Taxonomy

It was named by Karl Koch in Linnaea 24: 419 in 1851.

Editorial summary

“Centaurea leptophylla” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Centaurea, leptophylla 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1851—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Centaurea, leptophylla and species.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Centaurea leptophylla” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Centaurea, leptophylla 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 Sep 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15567411. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1851.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

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Primary datasets, specimen catalogues, standards bodies and the most recent peer-reviewed literature.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Centaurea leptophylla”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Centaurea leptophylla primary sources, Centaurea leptophylla archive and Centaurea research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Centaurea leptophylla”?
  2. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Centaurea leptophylla” 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.