Phyllocladus trichomanoides
D.Don · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Phyllocladus trichomanoides's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 505 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI15 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics9 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Phyllocladus alpinus, the mountain toatoa or mountain celery pine, is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found only in New Zealand. The form of this plant ranges from a shrub to a small tree of up to seven metres in height.Leonard Cockayne. 1921. The Vegetation of New Zealand, Published by W. Engelmann, 364 pages This species is found in both the North and South Islands. An example occurrence of P. alpinus is within the understory of beech/podocarp forests in the north part of South Island, New Zealand.C. Michael Hogan. 2009 The species contains the flavan-3-ols catechin, epicatechin and phylloflavan (ent-epicatechin-3-δ-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-β-hydroxypentanoate).Phylloflavan, a characteristic constituent of Phyllocladus species. Lai Yeap Foo, Liana Hrstich and Christian Vilain, Phytochemistry, Volume 24, Issue 7, 1985, Pages 1495–1498, Phyllocladus alpinus pollen cones and phylloclades.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology13
Life cycle & reproduction9
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry7
Compounds documented for Phyllocladus trichomanoides across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds34 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Isocupressic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,4aR,5S,8S,8aR)-8-acetyloxy-1,4a-dimethyl-6-methylidene-5-[(2Z)-3-methylpenta-2,4-dienyl]-3,4,5,7,8,8a-hexahydro-2H-naphthalene-1-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,4aR,5S,8S,8aS)-8-acetyloxy-1,4a-dimethyl-6-methylidene-5-[(2Z)-3-methylpenta-2,4-dienyl]-3,4,5,7,8,8a-hexahydro-2H-naphthalene-1-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3R)-2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5-dihydroxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrano[2,3-f]chromen-8-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3S,10S)-2,10-bis(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5-dihydroxy-3,4,9,10-tetrahydro-2H-pyrano[2,3-f]chromen-8-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (R)-Limonene | present | LOTUS | |
| 15-Acetoxyisocupressic Acid | present | LOTUS | |
| 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-3-((2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl)oxychromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 7-Methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene | present | LOTUS | |
| 9,10-Dihydro-10-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-pyrano(2,3-h)catechin-8-one | present | LOTUS |
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 Phyllocladus trichomanoides 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 Phyllocladus trichomanoides 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 1811×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · new-zealand · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +1
n 95×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · Cave1958
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
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 type3 505 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 institutions19 of 27 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Researchlocation not on record | 510 |
| Auckland, NZ | 143 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 124 |
| Wellington, NZ | 79 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 42 |
| Kew, GB | 15 |
| Bangkok, TH | 9 |
| LDlocation not on record | 7 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Honolulu, US | 3 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 3 |
| Armidale, AU | 2 |
| HAWlocation not on record | 2 |
| Canberra, AU | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 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 Phyllocladus trichomanoides 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?
Measured at samplingin-field
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.