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Linostoma (plant)

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ10318817 ↗
Source-derived summary

Linostoma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae.

Its native range is Assam to Southeastern China and Western Malesia.

Species

Four species are accepted.

Linostoma decandrum (Roxb.) Steud.

Linostoma longiflorum Hallier f.

Linostoma pauciflorum Griff.

Linostoma persimile Craib

Uses

In Khe Nghè Village in northeastern Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam, artisans belonging to the Cao Lan ethnic group harvest phloem fibers from the species Linostoma persimile for making paper.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Linostoma (plant)” as genus of plants. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Linostoma, plant and genus can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of plants. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jan 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10318817. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Linostoma (plant)” 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.