Eugenia foetida is a member of the family Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, and is colloquially referred to as "Spanish stopper" or "boxleaf stopper." It is found year-round in the understory of mangrove forests, coastal hammocks and dunes in coastal, central to southern Florida, and east in the Bahamas."A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Park Plants. John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. North Palm Beach Florida.Wunderlin, Richard P. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. 1998. Gainesville. University Press of Florida. p. 453
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Eugenia foetida has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
Marker genes6
GenBank sequences8
eDNA detections6
Countries1
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 barcodemarker
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 163 records
Wild obs. + sensor521
Museum / vouchered642
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 148 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 accuracy60% within 1 km
≤100 m 244≤1 km 32≤10 km 15>10 km 167
458 georeferenced · 63 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor521
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 accuracy40% within 1 km
≤100 m 59≤1 km 14≤10 km 47>10 km 63
183 georeferenced · 459 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence642
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 institutions32 of 51 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Miami, US
111
Bronx, US
73
ASUlocation not on record
73
Saint Louis, US
58
Tampa, US
50
Mexico City, MX
42
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
28
MEXUlocation not on record
21
Mérida, MX
18
Chicago, US
18
Ann Arbor, US
13
Durham, US
7
Kew, GB
7
CASlocation not on record
6
California Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
5
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
5
Phoenix, US
5
Austin, US
5
Fort Worth, US
4
Burlington, US
4
Wlocation not on record
4
Berlin, DE
3
Montréal, CA
3
Clocation not on record
3
BMlocation not on record
3
South Kensington, GB
3
Cambridge, US
3
Wuzhou, CN
3
Cambridge, US
3
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
3
Honolulu, US
2
Instituto de Investigaciones Botánicas y Zoológicas - Prof. Rafael M. Moscoso, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingolocation not on record
2
Tempe, US
2
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, (CSIC-UPF)location not on record
2
Taipei, TW
2
Plocation not on record
2
Claremont, US
2
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Minister of Sustainable Development, Climate Change & Solid Waste Managementlocation not on record
1
Austin, US
1
Guatemala, GT
1
AUAlocation not on record
1
COLlocation not on record
1
Station d'Ecologie de Lamtolocation not on record
1
MAlocation not on record
1
Chapel Hill, US
1
Aarhus, DK
1
Paris, FR
1
Whitehorse, CA
1
Riverside, US
1
Bloomington, US
1
51 institutions · 612 of 642 vouchered records shown · 30 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA6 detections
Where the DNA of Eugenia foetida 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 found6
Studies independent surveys2
Countries1
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 6 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 median17.4 °C 17.4–17.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter14.8 °C
Max temp (day)21.4 °C
Min temp (night)13.6 °C
Precipitation80.1 mm/mo
Air humidity61.7 %
Moisture balance-14.0 mm/mo
Vapour deficit762 Pa
Wind speed2.40 m/s
Cloud cover37.7 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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 163 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
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