Bromelia karatas is a plant species in the genus Bromelia. This species is native to West Indies and to Latin America from San Luis Potosí + Sinaloa south to Brazil.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Bromelia karatas across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Simple phenolic acids1
Documented compounds1 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
1-O-beta-D-Glucopyranosyl anthranilate
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding11 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 Bromelia karatas has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens11
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences6
eDNA detections7
Countries3
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.
★matK4★rbcL2★rbcLa
plant barcode
07Deep time~0.25 Ma lineage
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 origin0.25 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
How it livedPBDB
Dietphotoautotroph
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 190 records
Wild obs. + sensor4 812
Museum / vouchered372
Cultivated / captive5
Other1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 372 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 accuracy79% within 1 km
≤100 m 147≤1 km 86≤10 km 52>10 km 11
296 georeferenced · 4 516 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor4 812
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 accuracy93% within 1 km
≤100 m 88≤1 km 6≤10 km 7
101 georeferenced · 271 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence372
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤100 m 1
1 georeferenced · 4 without coordinates
Open the mapnot free-living5
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 institutions37 of 60 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
41
Durango, MX
36
Mexico City, MX
36
Chicago, US
34
Mérida, MX
20
Bronx, US
19
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Nortelocation not on record
16
Austin, US
10
Chaguaramas, TT
9
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX
9
Ann Arbor, US
9
Frankfurt am Main
7
Universidade Federal do Vale do São Franciscolocation not on record
7
JBRJlocation not on record
6
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
6
San José, CR
6
UFPElocation not on record
6
Mérida, MX
5
Riverside, US
5
Paris, FR
4
St. Augustine, TT
4
Madison, US
4
Sociedad para el Estudio de los Recursos Bióticos de Oaxaca, A. C.location not on record
4
IECOSlocation not on record
3
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
3
Claremont, US
3
Mexico City, MX
3
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
3
Area de Conservacion Guanacastelocation not on record
3
Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologialocation not on record
3
Austin, US
3
Tapachula, MX
2
León, NI
2
GB
2
Xiamen, CN
2
CASlocation not on record
2
Santiago de Cali, CO
2
MEXUlocation not on record
2
CEPLAClocation not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
1
Universidade Federal do Ceara, Departamento de Biologialocation not on record
1
Miami, US
1
Salvador, BR
1
Feira de Santana, BR
1
Mexico City, MX
1
Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record
1
Kew, GB
1
Loja, EC
1
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record
1
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record
1
UFBAlocation not on record
1
Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres" (JBC)location not on record
1
Fortaleza, BR
1
Cenargenlocation not on record
1
Brasília, BR
1
Juriquilla, MX
1
CEPEC, CEPLAC e Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahialocation not on record
1
Montecillo, Texcoco, MX
1
Fort Worth, US
1
UFERSAlocation not on record
1
60 institutions · 364 of 372 vouchered records shown · 6 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA7 detections
Where the DNA of Bromelia karatas 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 found7
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 7 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
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 median24.7 °C 18.7–24.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.50 °C
Max temp (day)26.8 °C 22.5–26.8
Min temp (night)22.6 °C 15.1–22.6
Precipitation401 mm/mo 184–401
Air humidity74.2 % 70.4–74.2
Moisture balance255 mm/mo 57.3–255
Vapour deficit798 Pa 639–798
Wind speed2.50 m/s 2.00–2.50
Cloud cover39.0 % 28.2–39.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 5 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 Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 190 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 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↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗