Calibrachoa parviflora
(Juss.) D' Arcy · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Calibrachoa parviflora's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 813 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 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↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Calibrachoa parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name seaside petunia. It is native to much of southeastern South America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, and it is present as an introduced species in other sections of the Americas, such as the southeastern United States, as well as in Australia, where it is an occasional weed in New South Wales. This herb produces slender, branching stems which creep along the ground and root at nodes. The upright branches are leafy, with fleshy, glandular, oblong or widely lance-shaped leaves. The herbage may be sticky in texture. Flowers occur in the leaf axils along the stems. Each is under a centimeter wide, its funnel- or bell-shaped corolla five-lobed and purple in color, with a paler tubular throat. The fruit is a capsule just a few millimeters wide.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology20
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry1
Other traits2
Compounds documented for Calibrachoa parviflora across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile4 classes
Documented compounds27 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1R,4R,9S,10R,14R)-14-(hydroxymethyl)-5,5,9-trimethyltetracyclo[11.2.1.01,10.04,9]hexadecane-3,14-diol | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R)-2-phenyl-9-[(Z)-3-phenylprop-2-enoyl]-1,5,9,14-tetrazabicyclo[12.3.1]octadecan-4-one | present | NPASS | |
| (2S)-2-phenyl-9-[(E)-3-phenylprop-2-enoyl]-1,5,9-triaza-14-azoniabicyclo[12.3.1]octadec-14(18)-en-4-one | present | NPASS | |
| (2S)-2-phenyl-9-[(Z)-3-phenylprop-2-enoyl]-1,5,9-triaza-14-azoniabicyclo[12.3.1]octadec-14(18)-en-4-one | present | NPASS | |
| (4S,4aR,6R,7R,7aS)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-ol | present | NPASS | |
| [(4R,4aS,6R,7S,7aR)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-yl] (E,6S)-8-hydroxy-2,6-dimethyloct-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(4S,4aR,6S,7R,7aS)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-yl] (E)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| Apigenin | present | LOTUS | |
| bis[(4R,4aS,6R,7S,7aR)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-yl] (1S,2S,3S,4R)-2-[(E)-5-[[(4R,4aS,6R,7S,7aR)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-yl]oxy]-3-methyl-5-oxopent-3-enyl]-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1-methylcyclobutane-1,3-dicarboxylate | present | NPASS | |
| bis[(4R,4aS,6R,7S,7aR)-2,4,7-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,5,6,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-yl] (2E,6E)-2,6-dimethylocta-2,6-dienedioate | 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 Calibrachoa parviflora 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 Calibrachoa parviflora 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
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 188×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants +1
n 94×CCDB · solan · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 type1 813 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 institutions56 of 79 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| ASUlocation not on record | 116 |
| Austin, US | 99 |
| Córdoba, AR | 52 |
| Phoenix, US | 47 |
| San Isidro, AR | 45 |
| San Diego, US | 42 |
| Flagstaff, US | 26 |
| Mexico City, MX | 18 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 18 |
| Philadelphia, US | 17 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 14 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 13 |
| Albuquerque, US | 13 |
| Fort Worth, US | 13 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 9 |
| Corrientes, AR | 8 |
| Austin, US | 7 |
| Guasave, MX | 7 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 6 |
| UFMGlocation not on record | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| South Kensington, GB | 6 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 6 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| The University of Arizonalocation not on record | 5 |
| Instituto de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 4 |
| Armidale, AU | 4 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 4 |
| US | 4 |
| Durango, MX | 4 |
| San Angelo, US | 4 |
| Columbia, US | 4 |
| Canberra, AU | 4 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| Texas Lutheran Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Minia, EG | 3 |
| Corvallis, US | 3 |
| Tampa, US | 3 |
| Jackson, US | 3 |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR | 3 |
| College Park, US | 2 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 2 |
| Castelar, AR | 2 |
| Juriquilla, MX | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Clemson, US | 2 |
| Orem, US | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 2 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 2 |
| New Brunswick, US | 2 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 2 |
| Stephenville, US | 1 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Brisbane, AU | 1 |
| Pomona Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| UTFPR-CPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| UEMlocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Hermosillo, MX | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Little Rock, US | 1 |
| Adelaide, AU | 1 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Calibrachoa parviflora 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.