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Fleischmannia obscurifolia

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5392715 ↗
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Fleischmannia obscurifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found in Ecuador and Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species was first described as Eupatorium obscurifolium by Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus in 1900. In 1970 Robert Merrill King and Harold Ernest Robinson placed the species in genus Fleischmannia as F. obscurifolia.

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

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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 Feb 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5392715. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fleischmannia obscurifolia” 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.