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Libinhania fontinalis

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ43374644 ↗
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Libinhania fontinalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Socotra, an African island which is politically part of Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Provisionally referred to as "Helichrysum sp. nov. C", it was described in 2017.

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The public source identifies “Libinhania fontinalis” as species of plant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Libinhania, fontinalis and species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Libinhania fontinalis” 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.