Illicium arborescens

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Austrobaileyales/Schisandraceae/Illicium

At a glance

Occurrence records1 054

Data sources5

Biological traits9

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Illicium arborescens's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 054 records↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page5 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources9 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS4 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 054 records

DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences

01Narrative

台湾八角（学名：）为五味子科八角属的植物，是台灣的特有植物。分布在台灣本島，生长于海拔300米至2,500米的地区，多生在阔叶林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Size & morphology1

Plant height15 m

Life cycle & reproduction2

Life formtree

Life spanperennial

Habitat & environment4

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Growth formtree

Woodinesswoody

Physiology & chemistry1

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

Other traits1

Plant support typefree-standing

03Chemical composition4 compounds

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

Compound class profile1 class

Miscellaneous meroterpenoids1

Documented compounds4 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(7aS)-7a-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)-6-prop-2-enyl-1,3-benzodioxol-5-one	present	LOTUS
Illicinole	present	LOTUS
Illifunone C	present	LOTUS
Illifunone D	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding10 sequences

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 Illicium arborescens has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

Marker genes3

GenBank sequences10

Countries1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

ITSKP689724.1 ↗636 bp

ACGT

TCGATGACCCACTAGGCTAACCGGCGAACTTGTCACATCATTCTTGGGGGTGATGGGAATGTCCTTCGGGGCCCTAGATACCCTCCTCCC …

Illicium arborescens voucher I015 internal transcribed spacer 1, partial sequence; 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.

★matK2★rbcL3★ITS5

plant barcodefungal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 054 records

Wild obs. + sensor650

Museum / vouchered403

Cultivated / captive1

Origin

Native34

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 212 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 accuracy90% within 1 km

≤100 m 190≤1 km 50≤10 km 18>10 km 8

266 georeferenced · 384 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor650

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 accuracy74% within 1 km

≤100 m 13≤1 km 1≤10 km 2>10 km 3

19 georeferenced · 384 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence403

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 institutions12 of 16 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Taipei, TW	200
Taipei, TW	90
Taipei, TW	36
TAIElocation not on record	34
CASlocation not on record	10
Saint Louis, US	7
Beijing, CN	6
Durham, US	4
Kunming, CN	3
EL PASO, US	2
Fort Worth, US	2
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	1
Tampa, US	1
Philadelphia, US	1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record	1
Edinburgh, GB	1

16 institutions · 399 of 403 vouchered records shown · 4 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

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Illicium arborescens

At a glance

Sources5 archives

Size & morphology1

Life cycle & reproduction2

Habitat & environment4

Physiology & chemistry1

Other traits1

Compound class profile1 class

Documented compounds4 total

At a glance

Record type1 054 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions12 of 16 geolocated

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Record type1 054 records