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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements3 literature sources12 traits
Chemical compositionLOTUS9 compounds
Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 508 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens
01Narrative
Pectocarya platycarpa is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names broadfruit combseed and wide-toothed pectocarya. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in many types of coastal and inland habitat, from mountains to desert. This is an annual herb producing a slender, rough-haired stem, generally upright to erect in form to a maximum height of 25 centimeters. The small, pointed linear leaves are alternately arranged, widely spaced along the stem. The inflorescence is a series of flowers, each on a curved pedicel. The flower has small green sepals and a tiny white corolla. The fruit is an array of four flattened, slightly curving nutlets lined with thin teeth.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Pectocarya platycarpa across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Unsaturated fatty acids8
Branched fatty acids $ Unsaturated fatty acids1
Documented compounds9 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
11-Eicosenoic Acid
present
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alpha-Linolenic acid
present
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Eicosanic acid
present
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Gamma-Linolenic acid
present
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Hexadecenoic acid
present
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Linonelic acid
present
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oleate
present
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palmitate
present
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stearate
present
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05DNA & barcoding2 specimens
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 Pectocarya platycarpa has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens2
Countries1
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 508 records
Wild obs. + sensor365
Museum / vouchered1 142
Other1
Origin
Native201
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 632 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 199≤1 km 21≤10 km 10>10 km 15
245 georeferenced · 120 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor365
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 accuracy65% within 1 km
≤100 m 30≤1 km 132≤10 km 82>10 km 5
249 georeferenced · 893 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 142
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 institutions49 of 65 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Claremont, US
234
ASUlocation not on record
224
Riverside, US
198
Phoenix, US
92
San Diego, US
63
Flagstaff, US
49
Santa Barbara, US
25
Bronx, US
22
Davis, US
16
Henderson, US
15
EL PASO, US
13
Los Angeles, US
12
Provo, US
12
Albuquerque, US
11
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
9
San Luis Obispo, US
9
CASlocation not on record
8
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
8
Irvine, US
6
Fort Worth, US
6
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
6
Arcata, US
6
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
6
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
5
Bangkok, TH
4
US
4
Logan, US
4
Orem, US
4
Long Beach, US
3
Wuzhou, CN
3
Pullman, US
3
Northridge, US
3
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
3
Arizona Western Collegelocation not on record
2
Austin, US
2
Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record
2
San Jose, US
2
Saint Louis, US
2
San Angelo, US
2
Columbia, US
2
Mexico City, MX
2
Moscow, US
2
Chadron, US
1
US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Caldwell, US
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
Missoula, US
1
Taipei, TW
1
San Francisco, US
1
Ensenada, MX
1
The University of Arizonalocation not on record
1
Hermosillo, MX
1
Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record
1
Boise, US
1
Durango, MX
1
Mérida, MX
1
Kew, GB
1
Pocatello, US
1
Mississippi State, US
1
Angwin, US
1
Bloomington, US
1
Durango, US
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
65 institutions · 1 127 of 1 142 vouchered records shown · 15 without an institution code
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 508 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗