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Pogostemon formosanus

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2022
Entity authorityQ3281034 ↗
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Pogostemon formosanus is a plant species in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1896. The species is endemic to the island of Taiwan.

Pogostemon formosanus are herbs or suffruticose plants, growing up to 1 m tall and covered with septate hairs; the stems are erect, round or square, and glabrous or sparsely and minutely hairy.

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“Pogostemon formosanus” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pogostemon, formosanus 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1896—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pogostemon, formosanus and species.
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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 Oct 6, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q3281034. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1896.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pogostemon formosanus” 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.