Callicarpa bodinieri, or Bodinier's beautyberry, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Callicarpa of the family Lamiaceae, native to West and Central China. Growing to 3 m tall by 2.5 m wide, it is an upright deciduous shrub with dark green leaves turning red in autumn (fall). In midsummer, small lilac flowers are produced in the leaf axils. But it is grown in gardens primarily for its small, decorative purple berries in tight clusters in autumn. The Latin specific epithet bodinieri refers to Émile-Marie Bodinier, a French missionary and botanist of the 19th century, who collected plants in China. The cultivar C. bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Callicarpa bodinieri across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Callicarpa bodinieri has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences7
eDNA detections9
Countries2
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.
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plant barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 730 records
Wild obs. + sensor116
Museum / vouchered1 613
Cultivated / captive1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 008 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 accuracy67% within 1 km
≤100 m 31≤1 km 43≤10 km 37
111 georeferenced · 5 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor116
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 accuracy85% within 1 km
≤1 km 11≤10 km 1>10 km 1
13 georeferenced · 1 600 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 613
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 · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions40 of 73 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Beijing, CN
355
Guangzhou, CN
158
Chengdu, CN
131
Nanjing, CN
117
Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record
86
Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record
79
Guilin, CN
70
Wuhan, CN
68
Kunming, CN
66
Changsha, CN
61
Yangling, CN
31
Hangzhou, CN
31
Guiyang, CN
24
Nanjing, CN
24
Seoul, KR
23
Zhejiang Universitylocation not on record
16
Zhuzhou, CN
15
Xian, CN
15
Wuhan, CN
14
Guiyang, CN
12
Chengdu, CN
12
Jishou Universitylocation not on record
10
Shanghai, CN
9
Awka, NG
9
Guizhou Forestry Schoollocation not on record
9
Zhengzhou, CN
9
Nanchong, CN
8
WNNUlocation not on record
7
Taipei, TW
7
Guiyang, CN
7
MeiseBGlocation not on record
6
Cambridge, US
6
Chongqing Natural History Museumlocation not on record
6
Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record
5
Nanjing, CN
5
Nagasaki University - Fisherieslocation not on record
5
Guangzhou, CN
5
Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botanylocation not on record
4
Kew, GB
4
Xiamen, CN
4
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
3
FJFClocation not on record
3
Yunnan Universitylocation not on record
3
Southwest Forestry Collegelocation not on record
3
Central China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record
3
Beijing, CN
3
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
2
Bronx, US
2
Jiangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicinelocation not on record
2
Jiujiang Forestry Institutelocation not on record
2
LDlocation not on record
2
Shanghai, CN
2
South China Normal Universitylocation not on record
2
黔东南州民族医药研究所标本室location not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
2
SMMUlocation not on record
2
Minia, EG
2
Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld)location not on record
1
Guangxi Institute of Traditional Medical and Pharmaceutical Scienceslocation not on record
1
Chengdu, CN
1
Peking Universitylocation not on record
1
Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record
1
Strecker Museum, Baylor Universitylocation not on record
1
Hangzhou Normal Collegelocation not on record
1
MAlocation not on record
1
Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record
1
Xiangtan City, CN
1
Guiyang, CN
1
Vitoria, ES
1
Saint Louis, US
1
Jinghong, CN
1
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
73 institutions · 1 589 of 1 613 vouchered records shown · 24 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 DNA9 detections
Where the DNA of Callicarpa bodinieri 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 found9
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 9 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 median29.2 °C 26.0–29.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter24.7 °C
Max temp (day)32.0 °C 29.3–32.0
Min temp (night)26.2 °C 21.6–26.2
Precipitation264 mm/mo 179–264
Air humidity63.0 % 61.1–65.6
Moisture balance91.8 mm/mo 28.5–91.8
Vapour deficit1,505 Pa 1,212–1,516
Wind speed2.90 m/s 2.50–3.40
Cloud cover40.2 % 39.3–46.4
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.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 730 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
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