Socratea exorrhiza
(Mart.) H.Wendl. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Socratea exorrhiza's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 333 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Socratea exorrhiza, the walking palm or cashapona, is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America. It can grow to 25 metres in height, with a stem diameter of up to 16 cm, but is more typically 15–20 m tall and 12 cm in diameter. It has unusual stilt roots, the function of which has been debated. Many species of epiphyte have been found growing on the palms. The palm is pollinated by beetles, and various organisms eat its seeds or seedlings.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology18
Life cycle & reproduction7
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment12
Physiology & chemistry9
Other traits5
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 Socratea exorrhiza 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 Socratea exorrhiza 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 362×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · kew
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 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.
Record type24 333 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 institutions28 of 73 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bronx, US | 204 |
| Saint Louis, US | 158 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 156 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 143 |
| Xiamen, CN | 69 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 33 |
| Kew, GB | 26 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 26 |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record | 24 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 23 |
| Aarhus, DK | 22 |
| La Paz, BO | 16 |
| Miami, US | 12 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 11 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Universiti Sains Malaysialocation not on record | 9 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 7 |
| Loja, EC | 6 |
| QCNElocation not on record | 6 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 6 |
| Paris, FR | 6 |
| Universidade do Estado de Mato Grossolocation not on record | 6 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 5 |
| Chicago, US | 5 |
| Quito, EC | 5 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 5 |
| Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa - estación biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missourilocation not on record | 4 |
| HUT Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 4 |
| Balslev H.location not on record | 4 |
| San José, CR | 4 |
| Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record | 3 |
| Anton de Kom University of Surinamelocation not on record | 3 |
| Iquitos, PE | 3 |
| Brasília, BR | 2 |
| Cusco, PE | 2 |
| Fort Worth, US | 2 |
| COLlocation not on record | 2 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC)location not on record | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad de los Andes (UniAndes)location not on record | 2 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| CUVClocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| UERJlocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Clocation not on record | 1 |
| Cuiabá, BR | 1 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal do Maranhãolocation not on record | 1 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cochabamba, BO | 1 |
| Collections de la Faculte des Sciences de Lyonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lima, PE | 1 |
| R. Bernallocation not on record | 1 |
| UNEMATlocation not on record | 1 |
| H. Balslevlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Iowalocation not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Altos de Pipe, VE | 1 |
| ACT-Slocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de los Llanos (UniLlanos)location not on record | 1 |
| Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Ministry of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Riobamba, EC | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDistrital)location not on record | 1 |
| UNESP-RClocation not on record | 1 |
| Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellínlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Herbariolocation not on record | 1 |
| Porto Velho, BR | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 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 Socratea exorrhiza 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.