Pandanus tectorius
Parkinson ex Du Roi · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Pandanus tectorius's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 353 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI27 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics29 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
giftgenome & karyotype
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Pandanus temehaniensis is a species of plant in the family Pandanaceae. It is endemic to French Polynesia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology21
Life cycle & reproduction30
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment32
Physiology & chemistry19
Uses & economy12
Other traits8
Compounds documented for Pandanus tectorius across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds47 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2R,3R,4S)-4-[bis(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-3-(hydroxymethyl)-4-[(S)-(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl]oxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(R)-(7-hydroxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(S)-(3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(S)-(3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(S)-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(S)-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[(S)-(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl]-3-methyloxolan-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| (3S,4S)-4-[bis(7-methoxy-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)methyl]-3-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-one | 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 Pandanus tectorius 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 Pandanus tectorius 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 602×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · GIFT · GIFT (floras)
2n 541×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
n 511×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
diploid2×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · GIFT · GIFT (floras)
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 type5 353 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 institutions18 of 28 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Université de Strasbourglocation not on record | 270 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 56 |
| Honolulu, US | 34 |
| Beijing, CN | 31 |
| Kew, GB | 29 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 24 |
| Paris, FR | 19 |
| Guilin, CN | 16 |
| Auckland, NZ | 15 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 6 |
| HAWlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bronx, US | 3 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Kunming, CN | 1 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 1 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFRRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Alexandria Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 1 |
| St. Paul, US | 1 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 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 Pandanus tectorius 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.