Euphorbia aphylla

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Euphorbiaceae/Euphorbia

At a glance

Occurrence records467

Data sources11

Biological traits27

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections10

Sources11 archives

Databases and archives Euphorbia aphylla's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility467 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

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

Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗

On this page7 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources27 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS6 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF467 records

Environmental DNA2 datasets · 1 countries10 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

Genome at a glanceCCDB · GoaT · TreeOfSex2.2 Gbp

01Narrative

Euphorbia aphylla, l'Euphorbe sans feuilles, est une espèce de plantes à fleurs de la famille des Euphorbiacées. Elle est endémique aux îles Canaries où elle est fréquente entre le niveau de la mer et 150 m d'altitude. C'est un arbuste qui peut atteindre 2,5 m de haut, aux tiges succulentes sans feuilles et aux fleurs sessiles.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Size & morphology7

Fruit length max5 mm

Fruit length min4 mm

Fruit width max5 mm

Fruit width min4 mm

Plant height1.5 m

Plant height max0.8 m

Plant height min0.4 m

Life cycle & reproduction8

Dehiscencedehiscent

Flower colouryellow

Flowering endJul

Flowering startMar

Life formsemisucculent subshrub or shrub

Life spanperennial

Lifeform raunkiaer detailedchamaephyte

Lifespan years2 years

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment10

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Elevation max150 m

Elevation min0 m

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit colourbrown

Fruit typecapsule

Growth formshrub

⚠ sources differ — GIFT: shrub · TRY: e N

Succulenceyes

Woodinesswoody

Other traits1

Shoot orientationerect

03Chemical composition6 compounds

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

Compound class profile4 classes

Lupane triterpenoids3

Oleanane triterpenoids1

Adianane triterpenoids1

Ursane and Taraxastane triterpenoids1

Documented compounds6 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
Alpha-Amyrin	present	LOTUS
beta-Amyrin	present	LOTUS
Lup-20(29)-en-3-one	present	LOTUS
Lupeol	present	LOTUS
Lupeol Acetate	present	LOTUS
Simiarenol	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding5 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 Euphorbia aphylla has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

Marker genes3

eDNA detections10

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.

★matK★ITS★ITS2

plant barcodefungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB · GoaT · TreeOfSex

The complete instruction manual Euphorbia aphylla 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

Genome size2 161 380 000 bp

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).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Euphorbia aphylla2.16 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

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.

Chromosomes2n = 20 n = 10

Ploidy2× diploid · measured

Chromosome records20–202n range20median20mode9records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 209×GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · iber-fl +5

GoaT · Tree of Sex Database — ↗

GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database — ↗

CCDB · iber-fl — Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Molero, J., T. Garnatje, A. Rovira, N. Garcia-Jacas & A. Susanna. 2002. Karyological evolution and molecular phylogeny in Macaronesian dendroid spurges (Euphorbia subsect. Pachycladae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 231(1–4): 109–132.

CCDB · book-ipcn72 — BRAMWELL, D., C.J. HUMPHRIES, B.G. MURRAY, & S.J. OWENS. 1972. Chromosome studies in the flora of Macaronesia. Bot. Notiser 125: 139-152.

CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants — Perry 1943

CCDB · kew — Suda J, Kyncl T, Jarolimova V. 2005. Genome size variation in Macaronesian angiosperms: forty percent of the Canarian endemic flora completed. Plant Systematics and Evolution 252: 215-238.

TreeOfSex · plant — Goldblatt1979 ↗

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database

GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database

diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=0.940 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type467 records

Wild obs. + sensor419

Museum / vouchered47

Cultivated / captive1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO540 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 accuracy64% within 1 km

≤100 m 170≤1 km 51≤10 km 125

346 georeferenced · 73 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor419

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 accuracy43% within 1 km

≤100 m 2≤1 km 7≤10 km 12

21 georeferenced · 26 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence47

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 institutions6 of 17 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Barcelona, ES	15
BClocation not on record	3
Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record	2
Philadelphia, US	2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record	2
Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record	2
LDlocation not on record	2
Alicante, ES	1
MAlocation not on record	1
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	1
Salamanca, ES	1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record	1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record	1
Granada, ES	1
Uppsala, SE	1
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record	1
Wlocation not on record	1

17 institutions · 38 of 47 vouchered records shown · 6 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 DNA10 detections

Where the DNA of Euphorbia aphylla 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 found10

Studies independent surveys2

Countries1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 10 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 median15.2 °C 15.2–15.2

Seasonal swing summer↔winter7.40 °C

Max temp (day)17.0 °C 17.0–20.1

Min temp (night)13.9 °C 9.00–13.9

Precipitation21.7 mm/mo 21.7–33.4

Air humidity58.0 % 52.9–58.0

Moisture balance-117 mm/mo -117–-61.7

Vapour deficit727 Pa 727–953

Wind speed2.20 m/s 2.00–2.20

Cloud cover34.6 % 34.6–38.3

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 8 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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