Ficus nymphaeifolia
Mill. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Ficus nymphaeifolia's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility957 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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.
Ficus nymphaeifolia is a strangler fig found in central and South America. Growing up to 35 metres tall, the habitat is coastal plains, savannah and rainforest. This plant first appeared in scientific literature in 1768. Published in The Gardeners Dictionary by the English botanist, Philip Miller from specimens collected in the Caribbean. Latex from the plant may be used in the form of a plaster, to treat sprains and fractures and cuts to the body, to offer relief from pain and to protect a wound from infection.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology9
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry6
Compounds documented for Ficus nymphaeifolia across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds7 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S)-4-hydroxy-6-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-2,3-dihydrofuro[3,2-g]chromen-5-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 2'-Hydroxybiochanin A | present | LOTUS | |
| Alpinumisoflavone | present | LOTUS | |
| Cajanin | present | LOTUS | |
| Derrone | present | LOTUS | |
| Erycibenin A | present | LOTUS | |
| Genistein | 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 Ficus nymphaeifolia 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.
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 type957 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 institutions31 of 88 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Saint Louis, US | 94 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 46 |
| Bronx, US | 32 |
| Chicago, US | 28 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 25 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 22 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 21 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 21 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 14 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 11 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 10 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 10 |
| San José, CR | 9 |
| Salvador, BR | 8 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 7 |
| Mexico City, MX | 7 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Ministry of Agriculturelocation not on record | 5 |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 5 |
| CEPLAClocation not on record | 5 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 4 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 4 |
| Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 4 |
| IECOSlocation not on record | 4 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 3 |
| Area de Conservacion Guanacastelocation not on record | 3 |
| León, NI | 3 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 3 |
| Berlin, DE | 3 |
| Loja, EC | 2 |
| UFBAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Altos de Pipe, VE | 2 |
| Station d'Ecologie de Lamtolocation not on record | 2 |
| Corporación Autónoma Regional Para la Defensa de la Meseta de Bucaramanga (CDMB)location not on record | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad de la Amazonia (UniAmazonia)location not on record | 2 |
| Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record | 2 |
| Durham, US | 2 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 2 |
| St. Paul, US | 2 |
| Durango, MX | 2 |
| Santiago de Cali, CO | 2 |
| FFCLRPlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFRPElocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal do Maranhãolocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)location not on record | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| UFRRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologialocation not on record | 1 |
| Kunming, CN | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| CPATSAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Arequipa, PE | 1 |
| Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis (JBBJCM)location not on record | 1 |
| Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa - estación biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missourilocation not on record | 1 |
| Masindi, UG | 1 |
| Herbario de la Universidad Técnica del Nortelocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| Río Palenque Science Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Católica de Oriente (UCO)location not on record | 1 |
| QCNElocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Guayaquillocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellínlocation not on record | 1 |
| HUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lima, PE | 1 |
| Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record | 1 |
| COLlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH)location not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Córdoba (UC)location not on record | 1 |
| Seropédica, BR | 1 |
| UEPAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Universidad de los Andes (UniAndes)location not on record | 1 |
| Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres" (JBC)location not on record | 1 |
| Universidade do Estado de Mato Grossolocation not on record | 1 |
| Santarém, BR | 1 |
| UFERSAlocation not on record | 1 |
| UNESP-FCAlocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 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 Ficus nymphaeifolia 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.