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Sticherus quadripartitus

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ17038121 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sticherus quadripartitus is a species of fern native to Chile with a natural distribution ranging from the latitude of Concepción (~37° S) in the north to Magallanes Region (~55° S) in the south including adjacent parts of Argentina. It is also found in the Juan Fernández Islands. It grows found from sea level up to 1800 m.a.s.l. and occurs in humid areas that are neither shady or too exposed to direct sunlight.

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“Sticherus quadripartitus” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sticherus, quadripartitus 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—1800—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sticherus, quadripartitus 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 Mar 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17038121. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1800.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sticherus quadripartitus” 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.