Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus

(Lem.) K.Schum. · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Ariocarpus

At a glance

Occurrence records211

Data sources10

Biological traits8

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility211 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

On this page6 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources8 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS1 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF211 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD · NCBI1 specimens

01Narrative

Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Coahuila and Nuevo León states, and southwards into Querétaro state, in northeastern Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It was named after the noble Kochubey family. It is threatened by habitat loss. Close up on flower

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPTRYGIFT

Size & morphology3

Seed mass0.077 mg

Seed mass max0.077 mg

Seed mass min0.077 mg

Life cycle & reproduction1

Life formsucculent subshrub

Habitat & environment3

Climatedesert or dry shrubland

Growth formherb

Woodinessnon-woody

Other traits1

Plant support typefree-standing

03Chemical composition1 compounds

Compounds documented for Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile1 class

Phenylethylamines1

Documented compounds1 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Class	Amount	Source
N-Methyltyramine		present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

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 Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes2

GenBank sequences3

eDNA detections1

Countries1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

rbcLMK449088.1 ↗539 bp

ACGT

GGTGTTAAAGATTACAAATTGACTTATTATACTCCTGAATATCAACCCCAGGATACCGATATCTTGGCAGCATTCCGAGTAACTCCTCAA …

Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene, partial cds; chloroplast

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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★rbcL1

plant barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type211 records

Wild obs. + sensor178

Museum / vouchered31

Cultivated / captive2

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO796 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 accuracy1% within 1 km

≤100 m 1>10 km 176

177 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor178

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 accuracy95% within 1 km

≤100 m 20≤10 km 1

21 georeferenced · 10 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence31

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 2 records without

Open the mapnot free-living2

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 institutions7 of 8 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Mexico City, MX	17
Guasave, MX	3
Durango, MX	3
Saint Louis, US	2
ASUlocation not on record	2
Phoenix, US	1
Austin, US	1
Juriquilla, MX	1

8 institutions · 30 of 31 vouchered records shown

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus 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 found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 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 median15.7 °C 15.7–15.7

Seasonal swing summer↔winter9.60 °C

Max temp (day)22.0 °C

Min temp (night)9.00 °C

Precipitation34.7 mm/mo

Air humidity50.9 %

Moisture balance-93.3 mm/mo

Vapour deficit884 Pa

Wind speed4.10 m/s

Cloud cover25.5 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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.

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