Butia capitata
(Mart.) Becc. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Butia capitata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility239 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↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Butia capitata, also known as jelly palm, is a Butia palm native to the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás in Brazil. It is known locally as coquinho-azedo or butiá in (northern) Minas Gerais.Fruits of Butia capitata (Mart.) Becc as good sources of β-carotene and provitamin A. Juliana Pereira Faria, Egle M. A. Siqueira, Roberto Fontes Vieira and Tânia da Silveira Agostini-Cost, Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, Oct. 2011, vol.33, no.spe1, This palm grows up to 8m (exceptionally 10m). It has feather palm pinnate leaves that arch inwards towards a thick stout trunk. Palms cultivated around the world under the name Butia capitata are actually almost all B. odorata. The real B. capitata is not notably hardy, nor widely cultivated. In Minas Gerais it flowers from May to July and is in fruit from November to February. Ripe fruit are about the size of large cherry, and yellowish/orange in color, but can also include a blush towards the tip.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology16
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits6
Compounds documented for Butia capitata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds7 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (-)-Isocomene | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Modhephene | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,3aR,5aR,5bR,7aR,9S,11aR,11bR,13aR,13bR)-9-methoxy-3a,5a,5b,8,8,11a-hexamethyl-1-prop-1-en-2-yl-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,9,10,11,11b,12,13,13a,13b-hexadecahydrocyclopenta[a]chrysene | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,2S,5R,8R)-2,5,8-trimethyl-6-methylidenetricyclo[6.3.0.01,5]undecane | present | NPASS | |
| 1-Silfinene | present | NPASS | |
| [(1R,2R,5R,6S)-2,4,6-trimethyl-2-tricyclo[3.3.3.01,5]undec-3-enyl]methyl acetate | present | NPASS | |
| Humulene | 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 Butia 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.
The complete instruction manual Butia capitata 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 328×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants · CCDB · Automatic manuscript search +1
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
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 type239 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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions18 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| USP-IBlocation not on record | 24 |
| Université de Bordeauxlocation not on record | 20 |
| Bronx, US | 18 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 17 |
| UNESP-ISlocation not on record | 17 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 8 |
| Miami, US | 7 |
| Brasília, BR | 6 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 6 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 6 |
| Tampa, US | 6 |
| Brasília, BR | 6 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 5 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 4 |
| Austin, US | 3 |
| Saint Louis, US | 3 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 2 |
| CPATSAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| CEPLAClocation not on record | 2 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| San Isidro, AR | 2 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 1 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lake Charles, US | 1 |
| REALlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreallocation not on record | 1 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 1 |
| JBPlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFMGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Tempe, US | 1 |
| Museo naturalistico del Frignano Ferruccio Minghellilocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Goiáslocation not on record | 1 |
| UNIVILLElocation not on record | 1 |
| Bogotá, D.C., CO | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Butia 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.