Aphloia theiformis
(Vahl) Benn. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Aphloia theiformis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 933 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Aphloia is a genus of flowering plants that contains a single species, Aphloia theiformis, the sole species of the monogeneric family Aphloiaceae. It is a species of evergreen shrubs or small trees occurring in East Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands and the Seychelles.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology11
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry5
Compounds documented for Aphloia theiformis across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds53 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[[(2R,3S,4S,5R,6R)-3,4-dihydroxy-6-[[(3S,5R,9R,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-[(2S,3S,5R)-2-methoxy-5-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)oxolan-3-yl]-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-2,3,5,6,9,11,12,15,16,17-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]-5-[(2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]methoxy]-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[[(2R,3S,4S,5R,6R)-6-[[(3S,5R,9R,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-[(2S,3S,5R)-2-ethoxy-5-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)oxolan-3-yl]-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-2,3,5,6,9,11,12,15,16,17-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]methoxy]-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-5-hydroxy-2-[(2R,6E,10E)-11-[(2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3,4-bis[[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxy]oxan-2-yl]oxy-2,6,10-trimethylundeca-6,10-dienoxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-2-[(1E,5E,10R)-11-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-2,6,10-trimethylundeca-1,5-dienoxy]-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-2-[(1E,5E,9Z)-11-[(2S,3S,4R,5R,6S)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-2,6,10-trimethylundeca-1,5,9-trienoxy]-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-5-hydroxy-2-[(2Z,6E,10E)-11-[(2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3,4-bis[[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxy]oxan-2-yl]oxy-2,6,10-trimethylundeca-2,6,10-trienoxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3S,4S,5R,6S)-2-[[(2R,3S,4S)-3,4-dihydroxy-4-methoxyoxolan-2-yl]oxymethyl]-6-(2-methoxy-4-prop-2-enylphenoxy)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-3-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6S)-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-2-[[(3S,5R,9R,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-[(2S,3S,5R)-2-ethoxy-5-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)oxolan-3-yl]-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-2,3,5,6,9,11,12,15,16,17-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]-5-hydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-5-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6S)-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[(3S,5R,9R,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-[(2S,3S,5R)-2-methoxy-5-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)oxolan-3-yl]-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-2,3,5,6,9,11,12,15,16,17-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]oxan-4-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[[(3S,5R,7S,8R,9R,10S,13R,14R,17S)-17-[(2S,3R)-2,3-dihydroxy-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]-7-hydroxy-4,4,8,10,14-pentamethyl-2,3,5,6,7,9,11,12,13,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-3-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Aphloia theiformis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Aphloia theiformis carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 202×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type5 933 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions14 of 46 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Saint Louis, US | 402 |
| Kew, GB | 239 |
| Plocation not on record | 178 |
| Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record | 175 |
| Paris, FR | 86 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 54 |
| Glocation not on record | 50 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 35 |
| Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developement Rurallocation not on record | 34 |
| CASlocation not on record | 33 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 28 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 26 |
| Stockholm, SE | 19 |
| Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropicallocation not on record | 16 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 15 |
| Université de la Réunionlocation not on record | 14 |
| École Nationale Supérieure Agronomiquelocation not on record | 14 |
| Centre National d'Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques (CNARP)location not on record | 9 |
| Bronx, US | 9 |
| MAlocation not on record | 7 |
| Durban, ZA | 6 |
| Arusha, TZ | 6 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 3 |
| Unknownlocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Johannesburglocation not on record | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Llocation not on record | 1 |
| Southern Highlands Conservation Programmelocation not on record | 1 |
| DSMlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Bayreuthlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 1 |
| MSB-3054location not on record | 1 |
| Herbarium of the University of Neuchâtellocation not on record | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| UJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ulocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Comoroslocation not on record | 1 |
| BMlocation not on record | 1 |
| South African National Biodiversity Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Aphloia theiformis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.