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Prospero autumnale

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7250914 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prospero autumnale, the autumn squill, an autumnal flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, is found in the Mediterranean region from Portugal and Morocco east to Turkey and the Caucasus, plus Great Britain. Despite being classified as a single species, it is actually a cryptic species complex, with a variety of cytotypes having been discovered which are phenotypically indistinguishable from each other.

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

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 63-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Prospero, autumnale and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7250914. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prospero autumnale” 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.