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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements2 literature sources15 traits
Chemical compositionLOTUS15 compounds
Occurrence & distributionGBIF115 records
Genome at a glanceGoaT≈276 Mbp
01Narrative
Plinia edulis (formerly Marlierea edulis) is a tree that grows wild in Brazil in the coastal rainforest regions around the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The fruit's local name is cambucá while the tree is cambucazeiro. The name is derived from an indigenous word for jar, cambuci, due to the tree's fruit resembling a type of water container, which some would say is "flying saucer"-shaped.Oxford Companion to Food (1999) "Cambuca" p. 127. The fruit's coloration is yellowy-green, size is 6 cm in diameter and taste is sweet-sour. Cambuca fruit taste resemble light combination of mango and papaya. A member of the myrtle and eucalyptus family, the tree can grow to a height of thirty feet, and propagation is by seed. Cambuca fruits
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Plinia edulis across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Plinia edulis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualPlinia edulis 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
Genome size≈276 172 216 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Plinia edulis0.28 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelScaffold
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type115 records
Wild obs. + sensor37
Museum / vouchered72
Other6
Origin
Native28
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO260 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 accuracy21% within 1 km
≤100 m 5>10 km 19
24 georeferenced · 13 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor37
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
>10 km 1
1 georeferenced · 71 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence72
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 institutions11 of 31 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
JBRJlocation not on record
14
Bronx, US
8
Blumenau, BR
6
UFSClocation not on record
5
Chicago, US
4
Kew, GB
3
UFRRJlocation not on record
3
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
3
UNICAMPlocation not on record
3
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
2
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record
1
UnBlocation not on record
1
Ivano-Frankivsk, UA
1
USP-IBlocation not on record
1
Londrina, BR
1
UFSJlocation not on record
1
UFESlocation not on record
1
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record
1
Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chilelocation not on record
1
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record
1
Salvador, BR
1
IAPlocation not on record
1
UFMGlocation not on record
1
Brasília, BR
1
INMAlocation not on record
1
Lake Charles, US
1
arosemena tola, EC
1
Cenargenlocation not on record
1
Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sullocation not on record
1
Brasília, BR
1
UTFPR-CPlocation not on record
1
31 institutions · 72 of 72 vouchered records shown
