Peltanthera is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Peltanthera floribunda. The genus was originally placed in family Loganiaceae and has since been variously placed in Buddlejaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Gesneriaceae, or in its own family Peltantheraceae. As of 2016, it is considered by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to be unplaced in any family, but within the order Lamiales. The plant is a tree with opposite leaf arrangement. The leaves are large and elliptic in shape. It has white fragrant flowers in a cymose inflorescence with trichotomous branches. The calyx and corolla each have five lobes, and there are five stamens. The two locules of the ovary each contain many seeds.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Peltanthera floribunda across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Cinnamic acids and derivatives $ Phenylethanoids1
Documented compounds2 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
Halleridone
present
LOTUS
Verbascoside
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding4 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 Peltanthera floribunda has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens4
Marker genes3
eDNA detections4
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.
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plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~61 Ma lineage
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 origin61 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 dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. 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 originmass extinction
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type161 records
Museum / vouchered161
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO180 km²
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 accuracy75% within 1 km
≤1 km 3≤10 km 1
4 georeferenced · 157 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence161
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions12 of 25 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
35
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
33
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record
16
San José, CR
11
Universiti Sains Malaysialocation not on record
10
HUT Culture Collectionlocation not on record
8
Kew, GB
7
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
7
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
6
Mexico City, MX
5
Iquitos, PE
4
Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa - estación biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missourilocation not on record
3
Lima, PE
3
South Kensington, GB
2
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record
1
Cusco, PE
1
Chicago, US
1
Berlin, DE
1
Claremont, US
1
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Quito, EC
1
QCNElocation not on record
1
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
1
Wlocation not on record
1
25 institutions · 161 of 161 vouchered records shown
09Environmental DNA4 detections
Where the DNA of Peltanthera floribunda 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
Detections DNA found4
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 4 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
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.
