Burmannia capitata
(Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) Mart. · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Burmannia capitata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 355 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Burmannia capitata is a plant species widespread across the West Indies and much of Latin America. It grows in wet areas at elevations less than 100 m. It has been reported from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, southern Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Veracruz, Tabasco), Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and the United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Texas, Oklahoma)Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 85: i–ix, 1–246.CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.Foster, R. C. 1958. A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 184: 1–223.Zuloaga, F. O., O. N. Morrone, M. J. Belgrano, C. Marticorena & E. Marchesi. (eds.) 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 3 Vols., 3348 p.Parker III, T. A. & B. Bailey. 1991. A biological assessment of the Alto Madidi region and adjacent areas of Northwest Bolivia. RAP Working Papers 1: 1–108. Burmannia capitata is an annual herb up to 35 cm tall. It has 0-3 basal leaves plus several cauline (stem) leaves, all lanceolate, up to 8 mm long. Inflorescence is a small cyme frequently resembling a head, with up to 25 flowers. Flowers are 3-ribbed or slightly 3-winged. Flowers are white, about 1 mm in diameter.Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Monocotyledons 1–712. The University of Georgia Press, Athens.Morong, Thomas. 1893. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 20: 472.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Life cycle & reproduction3
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
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 Burmannia capitata 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.
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 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 type1 355 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 institutions64 of 139 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 | 70 |
| Bronx, US | 62 |
| Tampa, US | 33 |
| Miami, US | 31 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 28 |
| Université de Bordeauxlocation not on record | 23 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 23 |
| Kew, GB | 20 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 19 |
| UFMSlocation not on record | 19 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 18 |
| Jackson, US | 16 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 16 |
| CEPLAClocation not on record | 16 |
| UEMAlocation not on record | 15 |
| UFMGlocation not on record | 13 |
| UFPElocation not on record | 13 |
| Austin, US | 13 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 13 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 13 |
| Bangkok, TH | 12 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 12 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 11 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 11 |
| Centro de Pesquisas Agropecuarias do Tropico Umidolocation not on record | 10 |
| Instituto do Meio Ambientelocation not on record | 10 |
| Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 10 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 10 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 10 |
| Salvador, BR | 10 |
| IECOSlocation not on record | 10 |
| Masindi, UG | 9 |
| Mississippi State, US | 9 |
| Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chilelocation not on record | 9 |
| Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Nortelocation not on record | 8 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 8 |
| Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)location not on record | 8 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 7 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 7 |
| Stockholm, SE | 7 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 7 |
| GAlocation not on record | 7 |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record | 6 |
| UFESlocation not on record | 6 |
| Brasília, BR | 6 |
| Federal University of Espírito Santolocation not on record | 6 |
| Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologialocation not on record | 6 |
| UFBAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 5 |
| Santa Teresa, BR | 5 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| Clemson, US | 5 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 5 |
| INMAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Universidad Nacional Agrarialocation not on record | 5 |
| Cambridge, US | 5 |
| Altos de Pipe, VE | 4 |
| Bloomington, US | 4 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 4 |
| Mexico City, MX | 4 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Chicago, US | 4 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 4 |
| Brasília, BR | 4 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record | 3 |
| Centro de Estudios y Colecciones Biológicas para la Conservaciónlocation not on record | 3 |
| Fort Worth, US | 3 |
| BMlocation not on record | 3 |
| Corrientes, AR | 3 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 3 |
| UEPAlocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 3 |
| Ulocation not on record | 3 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 2 |
| UFRPElocation not on record | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| Mérida, MX | 2 |
| Teresina, BR | 2 |
| Universidade Federal de Goiáslocation not on record | 2 |
| Montréal, CA | 2 |
| Riverside, US | 2 |
| Universidade Federal do Maranhãolocation not on record | 2 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 2 |
| UNESP-RClocation not on record | 2 |
| Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Ministry of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| Sangmiung Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Paleontological Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuária, IPAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Columbia, US | 2 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 1 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Asheville, US | 1 |
| Coastal Carolina Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal do Espírito Santolocation not on record | 1 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record | 1 |
| Due West, US | 1 |
| VALElocation not on record | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| JBPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 1 |
| UNESP-FCAlocation not on record | 1 |
| HUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Durango, MX | 1 |
| Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)location not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| COLlocation not on record | 1 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| UFSJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 1 |
| León, NI | 1 |
| La Paz, BO | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Londrina, BR | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 1 |
| Calabar, NG | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldilocation not on record | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Santarém, BR | 1 |
| UFSClocation not on record | 1 |
| Cruz das Almas, BR | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 1 |
| Missoula, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Burmannia capitata 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.