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Erythroxylaceae

family of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ157231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erythroxylaceae (the coca family) is a family of flowering trees and shrubs consisting of 4 genera and 271 species, native to Africa and South America. The four genera are Aneulophus Benth., Erythroxylum P.Browne, Nectaropetalum Engl., and Pinacopodium Exell & Mendonça. The best-known species are the coca plants, including the species Erythroxylum coca, the source of the substance coca.

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“Erythroxylaceae” enters the record as family of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Erythroxylaceae, family and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 58-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 Erythroxylaceae, family and plants.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q157231. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erythroxylaceae” 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.