Garcinia intermedia is a species of tropical American tree which produces tasty fruit. In English it is known as the lemon drop mangosteen (a name it shares with the closely related and similarly tasting Garcinia madruno). In Spanish it is called mameyito, though it is known as jorco in Costa Rica. In the Philippines, it is known as berba. In Portuguese it is called achachairu. The name achachairu is also applied to Garcinia humilis, another species native to Bolivia with larger, round or egg-shaped fruit (see Achachairu). G. humilis has been commercialized in Australia under the name Achacha.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Garcinia intermedia across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Garcinia intermedia has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens16
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections11
Countries4
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
Garcinia intermedia isolate 2 small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer 1 and 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence; and internal transcribed spacer 2, partial sequence
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.
★matK1★rbcL6★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~1.5 Ma lineage
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
DNA clock origin1.5 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type631 records
Wild obs. + sensor56
Museum / vouchered574
Other1
Origin
Native2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 400 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 13≤1 km 7≤10 km 2>10 km 1
23 georeferenced · 33 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor56
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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 53≤1 km 14≤10 km 14>10 km 2
83 georeferenced · 491 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence574
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 institutions28 of 48 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
164
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
130
Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV
27
Durango, MX
24
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX
23
Berlin, DE
19
León, NI
16
Kew, GB
16
Mexico City, MX
15
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
15
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record
13
San José, CR
9
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
9
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
9
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
7
San Francisco, US
7
Paris, FR
5
Area de Conservacion Guanacastelocation not on record
5
Tapachula, MX
4
Guatemala City, GT
4
Minister of Sustainable Development, Climate Change & Solid Waste Managementlocation not on record
4
Chicago, US
4
ASUlocation not on record
3
Davis, US
3
Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record
3
OTSlocation not on record
2
Bronx, US
2
Loja, EC
2
Durham, US
2
Guatemala, GT
2
Managua, NI
2
Elocation not on record
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvadorlocation not on record
1
UNICAMPlocation not on record
1
Provincial Museum of Albertalocation not on record
1
Mérida, MX
1
Universidad de Pamplona (UPamplona)location not on record
1
Madison, US
1
Stockholm, SE
1
Universidad de El Salvadorlocation not on record
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
Austin, US
1
Bloomington, US
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologialocation not on record
1
Monastir, TN
1
Edinburgh, GB
1
48 institutions · 567 of 574 vouchered records shown · 6 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA11 detections
Where the DNA of Garcinia intermedia 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 found11
Studies independent surveys1
Countries3
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 11 detections have coordinates
Open the map3 countries0
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 median25.7 °C 22.9–26.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.50 °C
Max temp (day)29.6 °C 26.4–31.2
Min temp (night)21.8 °C 20.1–22.4
Precipitation53.9 mm/mo 32.0–362
Air humidity60.3 % 59.3–70.0
Moisture balance-117 mm/mo -142–213
Vapour deficit1,226 Pa 908–1,381
Wind speed4.60 m/s 2.90–4.60
Cloud cover21.4 % 16.0–35.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 6 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility631 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics16 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗