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Denhamia disperma

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ17237622 ↗
Source-derived summary

Denhamia disperma, sometimes referred to as the orange boxwood, is a shrub or small tree growing in eastern Australia, from Queensland to northeastern New South Wales. Often seen in and near dry rainforests.

References

Floyd, A. G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia (2nd, Revised ed.). Lismore, New South Wales: Terania Rainforest Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-958943-67-3. Retrieved 2012-04-15.

"Maytenus disperma".

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“Denhamia disperma” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Denhamia, disperma and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Denhamia, disperma and species.
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“Denhamia disperma” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Denhamia, disperma 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 Nov 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17237622. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Denhamia disperma” 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.