Pholistoma membranaceum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family which is known by the common name white fiesta flower. It is native to western North America from central California to Baja California. It can be found in many types of habitat from mountain ravines to beaches to desert scrub generally below 4500 feet elevation. Leaves are deeply lobed or cut.
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 Pholistoma membranaceum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens3
Marker genes3
eDNA detections1
Countries1
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
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualPholistoma membranaceum 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.
Chromosomes2n = 18 n = 9
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
2n 181×CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants — Cave & C. 1942
07Deep time~17.2 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 origin17.2 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
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type2 685 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 829
Museum / vouchered856
Origin
Native168
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 944 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 accuracy89% within 1 km
≤100 m 933≤1 km 125≤10 km 72>10 km 59
1 189 georeferenced · 640 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 829
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 accuracy59% within 1 km
≤100 m 61≤1 km 149≤10 km 136>10 km 8
354 georeferenced · 502 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence856
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 institutions40 of 53 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
211
Riverside, US
126
San Diego, US
77
Santa Barbara, US
58
Davis, US
41
San Luis Obispo, US
40
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
16
US
15
CASlocation not on record
12
Arcata, US
11
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
10
Santa Cruz, US
8
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
8
Pocatello, US
8
EL PASO, US
8
Northridge, US
7
Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record
7
Flagstaff, US
6
Los Angeles, US
5
Bloomington, US
5
ASUlocation not on record
5
Phoenix, US
5
Logan, US
5
Tampa, US
4
San Jose, US
4
Henderson, US
3
Ensenada, MX
3
Long Beach, US
3
Durango, US
2
Bronx, US
2
Boise, US
2
Bangkok, TH
2
Philadelphia, US
1
Irvine, US
1
Corvallis, US
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
1
Burlington, US
1
Cambridge, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Moscow, US
1
Beijing, CN
1
PHlocation not on record
1
Macomb, US
1
Saint Louis, US
1
US
1
Kew, GB
1
Provo, US
1
Madrid, ES
1
Angwin, US
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
53 institutions · 740 of 856 vouchered records shown · 116 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Pholistoma membranaceum 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Metamorphic rock
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.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median13.2 °C 13.2–13.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter16.8 °C
Max temp (day)19.9 °C
Min temp (night)7.00 °C
Precipitation62.5 mm/mo
Air humidity53.6 %
Moisture balance-64.4 mm/mo
Vapour deficit708 Pa
Wind speed4.00 m/s
Cloud cover34.1 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 685 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗