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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements4 literature sources23 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 585 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD · NCBI1 specimens
Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 52
01Narrative
Mimosa quadrivalvis, known as fourvalve mimosa, sensitive briar and cat's claw, is a trailing vine native to North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. It is known as sensitive briar because the leaves fold when they are touched or disturbed.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Mimosa quadrivalvis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences10
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK4★rbcL5★ITS1
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualMimosa quadrivalvis 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.
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.
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 origin11.7 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
How it livedPBDB
Dietphotoautotroph
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 585 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 401
Museum / vouchered184
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 920 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 accuracy94% within 1 km
≤100 m 802≤1 km 92≤10 km 27>10 km 27
948 georeferenced · 453 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 401
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 accuracy34% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 11≤10 km 27>10 km 6
50 georeferenced · 134 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence184
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 institutions32 of 68 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
20
Mexico City, MX
14
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
13
ASUlocation not on record
7
JBRJlocation not on record
7
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
7
Lincoln, US
7
UnBlocation not on record
6
UNICAMPlocation not on record
5
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
5
Kew, GB
4
Riverside, US
4
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
4
University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record
4
Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)location not on record
4
Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record
4
Paleontological Collectionlocation not on record
4
Durango, MX
3
Sociedad para el Estudio de los Recursos Bióticos de Oaxaca, A. C.location not on record
3
Feira de Santana, BR
3
Miami, US
2
Bronx, US
2
Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologialocation not on record
2
GAlocation not on record
2
UFMGlocation not on record
2
Fayetteville, US
2
CEPLAClocation not on record
2
Corrientes, AR
2
EL PASO, US
1
UNESP-FCAlocation not on record
1
HUAlocation not on record
1
UFMSlocation not on record
1
Ilhéus, BR
1
Mazatlán, MX
1
Flagstaff, US
1
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
1
UNIVASFlocation not on record
1
Tampa, US
1
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC)location not on record
1
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
1
Brisbane, AU
1
Altos de Pipe, VE
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
OTSlocation not on record
1
Tempe, US
1
Chicago, US
1
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
1
Canberra, AU
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
Blacksburg, US
1
Universität Tübingenlocation not on record
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Austin, US
1
Columbia, US
1
Chapel Hill, US
1
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record
1
Fort Worth, US
1
Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuária, IPAlocation not on record
1
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Ministry of Agriculturelocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
INTAlocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
Lubbock, US
1
San Isidro, AR
1
San José, CR
1
UFERSAlocation not on record
1
Maringá, BR
1
68 institutions · 184 of 184 vouchered records shown
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 585 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗