⚠ sources differ — GIFT: 4.5 m · AusTraits: 4 m · TRY: 6 m
Plant height max3 m
Seed length5.5 mm
Seed mass37.16 mg
Seed width5.5 mm
Life cycle & reproduction5
Deciduousnessevergreen
Flowering timennnyynnnnnnn
Life formshrub or tree
Life spanperennial
Sex typehermaphrodite
Diet & foraging1
Parasiteindependent
Habitat & environment10
Aquaticterrestrial
Climatewet tropical
Climberself-supporting
Epiphyteterrestrial
Fruit fleshinessfleshy
Fruit typedrupe
Growth formtree
⚠ sources differ — GIFT: tree · AusTraits: shrub tree
Leaf compoundnesssimple
Leaf shapeelliptical lanceolate oblanceolate
Woodinesswoody
Physiology & chemistry7
Leaf c482 mg/g
Leaf n18.41 mg/g
Leaf p0.79 mg/g
Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer
Photosynthetic pathwayC3
Specific leaf area (SLA)9.47 mm²/mg
Wood density620 mg/cm³
Other traits1
Plant support typefree-standing
03Chemical composition9 compounds
Compounds documented for Ardisia elliptica across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Ardisia elliptica has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens11
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections11
Countries2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK2★rbcL6★ITS2★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualArdisia elliptica 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.
Chromosomes2n = 48 n = 24
Ploidypolyploid inferred
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
2n 481×CCDB · eflora
CCDB · eflora
n 241×CCDB · Cave1963
CCDB · Cave1963 — Chuang et al. 1963
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
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
DNA clock origin1.8 Ma TimeTree
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 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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type4 103 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 547
Museum / vouchered552
Other4
Origin
Native13
Introduced34
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO6 384 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy85% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 107≤1 km 366≤10 km 135>10 km 286
2 894 georeferenced · 653 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 547
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.
Coordinate accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 57≤1 km 51≤10 km 18>10 km 7
133 georeferenced · 419 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence552
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions35 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Brisbane, AU
38
Saint Louis, US
31
Pondicherry, IN
30
National Museum of Natural Sciencelocation not on record
26
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
25
Taipei, TW
23
Miami, US
23
Tampa, US
19
Smithfield, AU
18
Palmerston, AU
11
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
10
Mount Annan, AU
8
TAIElocation not on record
8
Bronx, US
8
BISHlocation not on record
7
Honolulu, US
7
Taipei, TW
6
Fort Worth, US
6
Canberra, AU
6
Blumenau, BR
5
Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record
5
Paris, FR
5
Xiamen, CN
5
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
5
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
4
Taipei, TW
4
Auckland, NZ
3
IPA/SPlocation not on record
3
Stockholm, SE
3
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
2
James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record
2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
2
León, NI
2
Durban, ZA
2
Nishihara, JP
2
Claremont, US
2
Kew, GB
2
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record
1
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record
1
Gump Stationlocation not on record
1
University of Santo Tomas Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Riverside, US
1
Chicago, US
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Beijing, CN
1
Richmond, US
1
San José, CR
1
Dekalb, US
1
PHlocation not on record
1
Seychelles National Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Armidale, AU
1
Kensington, AU
1
Kagoshima, JP
1
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record
1
Universidade de São Paulolocation not on record
1
ESALQlocation not on record
1
56 institutions · 387 of 552 vouchered records shown · 163 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA11 detections
Where the DNA of Ardisia elliptica 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
Detections DNA found11
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 11 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median18.9 °C 18.9–18.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter9.90 °C
Max temp (day)22.0 °C
Min temp (night)14.7 °C
Precipitation328 mm/mo
Air humidity65.8 %
Moisture balance229 mm/mo
Vapour deficit751 Pa
Wind speed0.9 m/s
Cloud cover47.8 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 103 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics11 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗