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Germainia

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2755351 ↗
Source-derived summary

Germainia is a genus of plants in the grass family. Species of the genus are found in China, Asia and Australia.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Germainia:

Germainia capitata Balansa & Poitr. – Guangdong, Yunnan, Vietnam, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland

Germainia grandiflora (S.T.Blake) Chai-Anan – Queensland, Northern Territory

Germainia khasyana Hack. – Assam, Myanmar, Thailand

Germainia lanipes Hook.f. – Myanmar, Thailand

Germainia pilosa Chai-Anan – Thailand

Germainia tenax (Balansa) Chai-Anan – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Germainia thailandica (Bor) Chai-Anan – Thailand

Germainia thorelii A.Camus – Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Germainia truncatiglumis (F.Muell.

Editorial summary

“Germainia” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Germainia, genus and plants 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 95-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Germainia, genus and plants.
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Why this record matters

“Germainia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Germainia, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2755351. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A general summary may omit uncertainty, sample limits or methodological disagreement that is explicit in the technical record. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Germainia primary sources, Germainia archive and Germainia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Germainia” 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.