Ceriscoides turgida

(Roxb.) Tirveng. · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Gentianales/Rubiaceae/Ceriscoides

At a glance

Occurrence records40

Data sources9

Biological traits13

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Ceriscoides turgida's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility40 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources13 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS10 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF40 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Ceriscoides turgida (syn. Gardenia turgida), the mountain gardenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent and mainland Southeast Asia. A tree reaching , its unripe fruit can be boiled and eaten as a famine food, but its ripe fruit are poisonous.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPTRYGIFT

Life cycle & reproduction4

Deciduousnessevergreen

Life formshrub or tree

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formphanerophyte

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment6

Aquaticterrestrial

Climateseasonally dry tropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formtree

Woodinesswoody

Physiology & chemistry1

Wood density706 mg/cm³

Other traits1

Plant support typefree-standing

03Chemical composition10 compounds

Compounds documented for Ceriscoides turgida across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile3 classes

Flavonols5

Flavan-3-ols4

Gallotannins $ Simple phenolic acids1

Documented compounds10 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-4-oxo-4H-1-benzopyran-3-yl 6-deoxyhexopyranoside	present	LOTUS
alpha-Catechin	present	NPASS
Catechin	present	NPASS
Epigallocatechin	present	NPASS
Feruloyl isoquercitrin 4'-glucoside	present	NPASS
Gallic acid	present	NPASS
Gallocatechin	present	NPASS
Myricitrin	present	NPASS
Quercetin	present	NPASS
Quercitrin	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

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 Ceriscoides turgida has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

Marker genes1

eDNA detections2

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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.

★rbcL

plant barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type40 records

Wild obs. + sensor10

Museum / vouchered30

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO112 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 accuracy80% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 3≤10 km 1

5 georeferenced · 5 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor10

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 accuracy91% within 1 km

≤1 km 10>10 km 1

11 georeferenced · 19 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence30

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 institutions4 of 7 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Baroda, IN	10
Kew, GB	5
Saint Louis, US	2
Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record	2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record	1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record	1
Pondicherry, IN	1

7 institutions · 22 of 30 vouchered records shown · 8 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Ceriscoides turgida 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

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 median25.9 °C 24.2–27.6

Seasonal swing summer↔winter13.3 °C

Max temp (day)28.3 °C 26.4–30.1

Min temp (night)23.2 °C 21.8–24.6

Precipitation258 mm/mo 256–259

Air humidity70.7 % 66.0–75.4

Moisture balance124 mm/mo 116–131

Vapour deficit1,013 Pa 753–1,273

Wind speed6.00 m/s 3.70–8.40

Cloud cover24.0 % 23.2–24.8

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 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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