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Cyclopia longifolia

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ21272461 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cyclopia longifolia, the Van Stadensberg honeybush tea, is a shrub belonging to the genus Cyclopia. The species is endemic to the Eastern Cape and occurs in the Vanstadensberg. It has a range of 31 km2 in which only three fragmented subpopulations remain after plantations were established. The plant is part of the fynbos and is further threatened by invasive plants and uncontrolled fires.

The tree's FSA number is 224.2.

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“Cyclopia longifolia” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cyclopia, longifolia 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 69-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 Cyclopia, longifolia and species.
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“Cyclopia longifolia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cyclopia, longifolia and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21272461. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. 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 “Cyclopia longifolia” 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.