Sesuvium maritimum is an annual herbaceous plant native to southeastern North America in the family Aizoaceae. This species is commonly known as the annual or slender sea purslane. It can be found on sandy beaches, salt marshes, or other coastal regions.
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 Sesuvium maritimum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences3
eDNA detections1
Countries2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
Sesuvium maritimum isolate Sesu 11 voucher BRIT s. n. internal transcribed spacer 1, partial sequence; 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence; and internal transcribed spacer 2, partial sequence
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.
★ITS3★ITS2
fungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type250 records
Wild obs. + sensor90
Museum / vouchered160
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO792 km²
Depth
0–200 m sunlit6
200–1000 m twilight0
1–4 km midnight0
>4 km abyssal0
median 0.5 m · max 0.5 m · 6 records with depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy44% within 1 km
≤100 m 29≤1 km 3≤10 km 5>10 km 35
72 georeferenced · 18 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor90
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 22≤1 km 11≤10 km 29>10 km 12
74 georeferenced · 86 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence160
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 institutions25 of 39 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Durango, MX
16
Wuzhou, CN
14
Tampa, US
14
Miami, US
10
Bronx, US
9
Saint Louis, US
7
US
7
Austin, US
5
Philadelphia, US
4
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
4
Longwood Universitylocation not on record
3
Mexico City, MX
3
Tuscaloosa, US
3
GAlocation not on record
3
Bangkok, TH
2
Fort Worth, US
2
Columbia, US
2
Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record
2
Berlin, DE
2
Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record
2
Santa Barbara, US
1
DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record
1
Jackson, US
1
UFRPElocation not on record
1
Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record
1
GB
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Williamsburg, US
1
Instituto de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record
1
Mississippi State, US
1
Knoxville, US
1
Flagstaff, US
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Autlán de Navarro, MX
1
Chapel Hill, US
1
39 institutions · 133 of 160 vouchered records shown · 27 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Sesuvium maritimum 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
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility244 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System6 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗