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Marquesia

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ2709663 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marquesia is a genus of plant in family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Africa and can be found in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe.

It contains the following species:

Marquesia acuminata (Gilg) R.E.Fr

Marquesia excelsa R.E.Fr.

Marquesia macroura Gilg

The genus name of Marquesia is in honour of L. Marques, who was a Portuguese plant collector hunting in Angola and Mozambique.

The genus was circumscribed by Ernst Friedrich Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.40 on page 485 in 1908.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Marquesia” is genus of plants. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Marquesia, genus and plants, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1908—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Marquesia, genus and plants is the immediate research focus.
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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 Sep 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2709663. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marquesia” 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.