Smilax china
speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Smilax china's data was compiled from.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 730 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI24 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics19 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Smilax china L. è una pianta rampicante della famiglia Smilacaceae. Tra i nomi comuni con cui è nota vi è anche "Radice cinese".
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology15
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry6
Other traits3
Compounds documented for Smilax china across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds149 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Dioscin | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Shikimic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (+)-taxifolin | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Catechol | present | NPASS | |
| (2R)-2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5,7-Trihydroxy-2,3-Dihydrochromen-4-One | present | NPASS | |
| (2R)-3-amino-2-hydroxy-N-[2-[(S)-methylsulfinyl]ethyl]propanamide | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3R)-5,7-dihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-[(2R,3R,4R,5S,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxy-2,3-dihydrochromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3R,4S,5S,6S)-2-[[(3S,8S,9S,10R,13R,14S,17R)-17-[(2R,5R)-5-ethyl-6-methylheptan-2-yl]-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl]oxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3S)-2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5,7-Trihydroxy-2,3-Dihydrochromen-4-One | present | NPASS | |
| (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 |
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 china 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 Smilax china 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.
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 603×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 302×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 641×CCDB · Automatic manuscript search
2n 901×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 961×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Smilax china. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type8 731 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 institutions64 of 125 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Guangzhou, CN | 548 |
| Beijing, CN | 514 |
| Odawara, JP | 194 |
| Chengdu, CN | 188 |
| Nanjing, CN | 178 |
| Taipei, TW | 174 |
| Taipei, TW | 136 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 123 |
| Guilin, CN | 115 |
| Chiba, JP | 111 |
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 103 |
| KR | 91 |
| Toyama, JP | 91 |
| Kochi, JP | 88 |
| Yangling, CN | 84 |
| Shinshu Universitylocation not on record | 82 |
| Bando, JP | 77 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 70 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 63 |
| Taipei, TW | 60 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 57 |
| Wuhan, CN | 53 |
| Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record | 46 |
| Fukushima Universitylocation not on record | 43 |
| Changsha, CN | 42 |
| Tomioka, JP | 39 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 37 |
| KURAlocation not on record | 33 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 31 |
| Kagoshima, JP | 30 |
| JP | 30 |
| Zhengzhou, CN | 26 |
| Zhejiang Universitylocation not on record | 24 |
| Tokushima, JP | 24 |
| Wuhan, CN | 23 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 22 |
| Xiamen, CN | 22 |
| Sendai, JP | 19 |
| Seoul, KR | 19 |
| Korea National Arboretumlocation not on record | 17 |
| Sagamihara, JP | 17 |
| KOMlocation not on record | 16 |
| Nagasaki University - Fisherieslocation not on record | 14 |
| Saint Louis, US | 14 |
| Ishikawa Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 14 |
| Beijing, CN | 14 |
| Osaka, JP | 12 |
| Xinxiang, CN | 12 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 10 |
| Shanghai, CN | 9 |
| Burlington, US | 7 |
| Zhuzhou, CN | 7 |
| J.F.Oberlin Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Cambridge, US | 7 |
| Strecker Museum, Baylor Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Nagano City, JP | 7 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| DNSMlocation not on record | 6 |
| Guiyang, CN | 6 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 6 |
| Angwin, US | 6 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Shanghai, CN | 6 |
| Chengdu, CN | 5 |
| 云南省思茅市民族传统医药研究所location not on record | 5 |
| Zhejiang Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 5 |
| Akita Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Jishou Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| SJNAlocation not on record | 4 |
| FJIDClocation not on record | 4 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| South China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Chongqing Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| J. Rusek Collectionlocation not on record | 3 |
| KIWElocation not on record | 3 |
| Ischia Marine Centrelocation not on record | 3 |
| Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukubalocation not on record | 3 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 3 |
| Elocation not on record | 3 |
| Fort Worth, US | 3 |
| Guiyang, CN | 3 |
| Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing, CN | 2 |
| nlocation not on record | 2 |
| GNWPlocation not on record | 2 |
| SIHUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| Xian, CN | 2 |
| Oiso Municipal Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum Of Natural And Environmental History, Shizuokalocation not on record | 2 |
| Nanchong, CN | 2 |
| Bronx, US | 2 |
| KNAMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Awka, NG | 2 |
| Xiangtan City, CN | 2 |
| XAJDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Xining, CN | 1 |
| DMZ botanic gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Guangxi Medicinal Botanic Gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| Mie Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| 黔东南州民族医药研究所标本室location not on record | 1 |
| Guizhou Forestry Schoollocation not on record | 1 |
| Zunyi Normal Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| FJFClocation not on record | 1 |
| Taiyuan Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Chengdu, CN | 1 |
| Southwest Forestry Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 1 |
| Dublin, IE | 1 |
| Shanxi Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Otaru, JP | 1 |
| Guiyang, CN | 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 Smilax china 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?
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.