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Garcinia zeylanica

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5470862 ↗
Source-derived summary

Garcinia zeylanica is a terrestrial species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is a tree native to southwestern Sri Lanka, where it can be seen only in three forest localities. According to Plants of the World Online it is also native to southern India.

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“Garcinia zeylanica” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Garcinia, zeylanica 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 46-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 Garcinia, zeylanica and species.
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“Garcinia zeylanica” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Garcinia, zeylanica 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 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5470862. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Garcinia zeylanica” 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.