Smilax blumei

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Liliales/Smilacaceae/Smilax

At a glance

Occurrence records100

Data sources7

Biological traits30

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Smilax blumei's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility100 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources30 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF100 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD · NCBI1 specimens

01Narrative

Smilax blumei is a vine in the greenbrier family. It is native to parts of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Java) as well as to New Guinea and northern Australia (Queensland and Northern Territory).Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de 1878. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 1: 202 in LatinAtlas of Living Australia, Smilax blumei A.DC.Frynn กรามช้าง กรามช้าง ชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ Smilax blumei DC. หรือ Smilax blumei A.DC.จัดอยู่ในวงศ์ in Thai with color photos

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsTRYGIFT

Size & morphology11

Fruit length9 mm

Fruit width10 mm

Leaf length130 mm

Leaf size17 344 mm²

Leaf width80 mm

Petiole length2 cm

Plant height20 m

Plant height max10 m

Seed length6 mm

Seed mass63 mg

Seed width4.5 mm

Life cycle & reproduction7

Deciduousnessevergreen

Dispersal typeanimal

Life formclimber

Life spanperennial

Pollination syndromefly

Resprouting capacityresprouts

Sex typedioecious

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment9

Climatewet tropical

Climberobligatory

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit fleshinessfleshy

Fruit typeberry

Growth formclimber

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf shapeelliptical ovate

Woodinesswoody

⚠ sources differ — TRY: woody · AusTraits: herbaceous · GIFT: woody

Physiology & chemistry2

Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

05DNA & barcoding1 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 Smilax blumei has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes3

GenBank sequences3

eDNA detections1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

ITSKC511492.1 ↗806 bp

ACGT

CCGCGAACTCGGAACGGACGCCGCCGGAGCGGGCGGGCACGCCCGTCCCTCCGGCCCGTCGCCCCTCGGGCCGCGGCCGCACGGCCCGGC …

Smilax blumei voucher Seine 05081414 (ZJH) 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer 1, 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, and internal transcribed spacer 2, complete sequence; and 28S ribosomal RNA gene, 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.

★matK1★rbcL1★ITS1

plant barcodefungal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type100 records

Wild obs. + sensor2

Museum / vouchered85

Other13

Origin

Native5

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO244 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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 2

2 georeferenced

Open the mapobservation + sensor2

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 accuracy50% within 1 km

≤100 m 17≤1 km 14≤10 km 30>10 km 1

62 georeferenced · 23 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence85

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 institutions5 of 6 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Smithfield, AU	41
Brisbane, AU	14
Palmerston, AU	6
Kew, GB	2
Honolulu, US	2
James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record	1

6 institutions · 66 of 85 vouchered records shown · 19 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Smilax blumei 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.

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