Simarouba glauca is a flowering tree that is native to Florida, South America, and the Caribbean. Common names include paradise-tree, dysentery-bark, bitterwood . The tree is well suited for warm, humid, tropical regions. Its cultivation depends on rainfall distribution, water holding capacity of the soil and sub-soil moisture. It is suited for temperature range of 10 to. It can grow at elevations from sea level to 1000 m. It grows 40 to tall and has a span of 25 to. It bears yellow flowers and oval elongated purple colored fleshy fruits.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Simarouba glauca across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
🍽 Used in cooking💊 Medicinal use documented
Compound class profile5 classes
Flavanones37
Quinolizidine alkaloids18
Pterocarpan15
Flavonols11
Isoflavones11
Documented compounds224 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
FAT
677,000 ppm
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OLEIC-ACID
388,400 ppm
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STEARIC-ACID
185,220 ppm
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PALMITIC-ACID
77,380 ppm
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LINOLEIC-ACID
12,860 ppm
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ARACHIDIC-ACID
10,085 ppm
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LINOLENIC-ACID
1,555 ppm
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PALMITOLEIC-ACID
1,420 ppm
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05DNA & barcoding24 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 Simarouba glauca has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens24
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections16
Countries2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK4★rbcL4★rbcLa★ITS2★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualSimarouba glauca 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 size1 002 449 999 bp
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 Simarouba glauca1 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
07Deep time~0 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 origin0 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 type1 389 records
Wild obs. + sensor707
Museum / vouchered680
Other2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 424 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 accuracy91% within 1 km
≤100 m 462≤1 km 64≤10 km 14>10 km 35
575 georeferenced · 132 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor707
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 accuracy85% within 1 km
≤100 m 249≤1 km 12≤10 km 19>10 km 27
307 georeferenced · 373 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence680
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 institutions35 of 55 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
92
Durango, MX
79
Mexico City, MX
69
Mérida, MX
48
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
42
Chapingo, MX
32
Miami, US
28
Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV
25
Bronx, US
24
Tampa, US
21
Tapachula, MX
18
Mexico City, MX
16
San Francisco de Campeche, MX
13
Berlin, DE
13
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
12
Area de Conservacion Guanacastelocation not on record
9
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX
8
South Kensington, GB
6
Chicago, US
6
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
6
Mérida, MX
5
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
5
Kew, GB
5
Edinburgh, GB
4
Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabascolocation not on record
4
San José, CR
4
Guatemala City, GT
3
Frankfurt am Main
3
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
3
Burlington, US
3
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX
3
ASUlocation not on record
3
Riverside, US
3
Elocation not on record
2
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
2
MEXUlocation not on record
2
US
2
No Voucher Tissuelocation not on record
2
San Diego, US
2
Bangkok, TH
2
AUAlocation not on record
2
Logan, US
1
Centro de Investigaciones Forestales del Trópico Húmedo, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuariaslocation not on record
1
Mexico City, MX
1
La Paz, MX
1
OTSlocation not on record
1
Montecillo, Texcoco, MX
1
Mexico City, MX
1
University of Hamburglocation not on record
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
CJBGlocation not on record
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Pondicherry, IN
1
UEMAlocation not on record
1
Wuzhou, CN
1
55 institutions · 645 of 680 vouchered records shown · 35 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA16 detections
Where the DNA of Simarouba glauca 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 found16
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 16 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 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.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median24.9 °C 24.7–25.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.00 °C
Max temp (day)27.7 °C 26.7–29.1
Min temp (night)23.2 °C 21.2–24.1
Precipitation256 mm/mo 27.6–274
Air humidity65.6 % 63.7–69.9
Moisture balance74.2 mm/mo -120–105
Vapour deficit1,072 Pa 989–1,133
Wind speed2.90 m/s 1.90–5.50
Cloud cover26.3 % 20.8–46.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 7 detection points · 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 Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 389 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI16 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics24 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome ~1.00 Gbp↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗