Cercocarpus montanus
Raf. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Cercocarpus montanus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 087 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Cercocarpus montanus is a North American species of shrub or small tree in the family Rosaceae native to northern Mexico and the western United States. It is known by the common names alder-leaf mountain-mahogany, alder-leaf cercocarpus, and true mountain-mahogany. The variety argenteus is commonly known as silverleaf mountain-mahogany.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology5
Life cycle & reproduction25
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment25
Physiology & chemistry26
Uses & economy15
Other traits7
Compounds documented for Cercocarpus montanus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds2 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Ursolic Acid | present | LOTUS | |
| Oleanolic acid | present | LOTUS |
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 Cercocarpus montanus 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 Cercocarpus montanus 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 183×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · book-fedorov
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 type6 087 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 institutions69 of 98 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 | 153 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 149 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 111 |
| Denver, US | 81 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 80 |
| Phoenix, US | 71 |
| Albuquerque, US | 71 |
| Flagstaff, US | 40 |
| Chadron, US | 31 |
| Riverside, US | 28 |
| Durango, US | 27 |
| Provo, US | 21 |
| Logan, US | 20 |
| Austin, US | 20 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 19 |
| Claremont, US | 19 |
| Bronx, US | 17 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 15 |
| Grand Junction, US | 14 |
| Orem, US | 13 |
| Saint Louis, US | 13 |
| Bandelier National Monumentlocation not on record | 12 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 10 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 10 |
| Spearfish, US | 9 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Bloomington, US | 9 |
| Lincoln, US | 9 |
| San Angelo, US | 7 |
| Lubbock, US | 7 |
| Fort Worth, US | 7 |
| Mexico City, MX | 7 |
| Emporia, US | 6 |
| Guasave, MX | 6 |
| Angwin, US | 6 |
| Bangkok, TH | 6 |
| Boise, US | 5 |
| Burlington, US | 5 |
| Austin, US | 5 |
| Pomona Collegelocation not on record | 5 |
| Moscow, US | 4 |
| EL PASO, US | 4 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 4 |
| Tacoma, US | 4 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 3 |
| Pullman, US | 3 |
| Giardini Botanici Hanburylocation not on record | 3 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Caliente Field Officelocation not on record | 3 |
| Tampa, US | 3 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 3 |
| Arcata, US | 3 |
| Durango, MX | 3 |
| Davis, US | 2 |
| CASlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Tlalnepantla, MX | 2 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Hermosillo, MX | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 2 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 2 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 2 |
| Missoula, US | 2 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Whitewater, US | 1 |
| USFS/BHSClocation not on record | 1 |
| Millersville, US | 1 |
| Stephenville, US | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fargo, US | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Ensenada, MX | 1 |
| Pocatello, US | 1 |
| Mérida, MX | 1 |
| Tempe, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Cslocation not on record | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| MEXUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brookings, US | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Juriquilla, MX | 1 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Bozeman, US | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 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 Cercocarpus montanus 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.