Guadua angustifolia
Kunth · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Guadua angustifolia's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 401 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
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
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Guadua angustifolia also known as the Colombian timber bamboo and Colombian giant thorny, is a species of clumping bamboo found from Central to South America.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction3
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry1
Compounds documented for Guadua angustifolia across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds68 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1R,4As,8Ar)-5,5,8A-Trimethyl-4-Oxo-1-[(E)-2-(5-Oxo-2H-Furan-4-Yl)Ethenyl]-4A,6,7,8-Tetrahydro-1H-Naphthalene-2-Carbaldehyde | present | NPASS | |
| (3E,5R)-3-[2-[(1S,4aS,8aS)-5,5,8a-trimethyl-2-methylidene-3,4,4a,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-naphthalen-1-yl]ethylidene]-5-hydroxyoxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,6E)-Nerolidol | present | NPASS | |
| (4S,4aR,8aS)-4-[(Z)-2-(furan-3-yl)ethenyl]-3,4a,8,8-tetramethyl-5,6,7,8a-tetrahydro-4H-naphthalen-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| (E)-4-[(1S,4aS,8aS)-5,5,8a-trimethyl-2-methylidene-3,4,4a,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-naphthalen-1-yl]-2-(2,2-diethoxyethyl)but-2-enal | present | NPASS | |
| (E)-4-[(1S,4aS,8aS)-5,5,8a-trimethyl-2-methylidene-3,4,4a,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-naphthalen-1-yl]-2-(2-hydroxyethyl)but-2-enal | present | NPASS | |
| 1,7-Bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)hepta-4,6-dien-3-one | present | NPASS | |
| 2-Propenal, 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)- | present | NPASS | |
| 2-Propenoic acid, 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-, ethyl ester | present | NPASS | |
| 3-(4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxyphenyl)Prop-2-Enoic Acid | present | NPASS |
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 Guadua angustifolia 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.
The complete instruction manual Guadua angustifolia 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
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).
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.
2n 461×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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 type11 401 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 institutions22 of 57 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record | 169 |
| Universidad del Quindío (UniQuindío)location not on record | 115 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 91 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 64 |
| Saint Louis, US | 57 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 29 |
| Puerto Ayora, EC | 19 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 14 |
| Universidad Católica de Oriente (UCO)location not on record | 13 |
| Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record | 12 |
| arosemena tola, EC | 10 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 9 |
| Kew, GB | 7 |
| QCNElocation not on record | 7 |
| Xiamen, CN | 6 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 5 |
| Loja, EC | 4 |
| Universidad del Valle (UV)location not on record | 4 |
| UFMSlocation not on record | 3 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 3 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 3 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 2 |
| UTPLlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Brasília, BR | 2 |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR | 2 |
| Université de Bordeauxlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| International Salmonella Centre (W.H.O.)location not on record | 2 |
| Corporación Autónoma Regional Para la Defensa de la Meseta de Bucaramanga (CDMB)location not on record | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Santiago de Cali, CO | 1 |
| Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellínlocation not on record | 1 |
| COLlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Cuiabá, BR | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Aarhus, DK | 1 |
| Instituto de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDistrital)location not on record | 1 |
| Corrientes, AR | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record | 1 |
| UFSClocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Salvador, BR | 1 |
| Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa - estación biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missourilocation not on record | 1 |
| Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record | 1 |
| Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| San José, CR | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 1 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation 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 Guadua angustifolia 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.