Stachybotrys chartarum
(Ehrenb.) S.Hughes · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Stachybotrys chartarum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility801 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System562 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 008 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics80 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Stachybotrys chartarumOther Latin names are Stachybotrys atra, Stachybotrys alternans, and or Stilbospora chartarum. (, ), also known as black mold or toxic black mold, is a variety of microfungus that produces its conidia in slime heads. It is sometimes found in soil and grain, but the mold is most often detected in cellulose-rich building materials, such as gypsum-based drywall and wallpaper, from damp or water-damaged buildings.Samson RA, Houbraken J, Thrane U, Frisvad JC & Andersen B. (2010). Food and Indoor Fungi. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands. pp. 1–398. S. chartarum was originally discovered on the wall of a house in Prague in 1837 by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Stachybotrys chartarum across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds214 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1E,5R,7R,9S,11Z,13S,15R,16S,19R)-15-hydroxy-2,5,12,15-tetramethyl-7-propan-2-yl-6,14,18-trioxatetracyclo[11.5.1.05,9.016,19]nonadeca-1,11-diene-8,17-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1E,5S,10R,12E,14R,16R,17S,20R)-16-hydroxy-2,5,13,16-tetramethyl-9-propan-2-yl-6,15,19-trioxatetracyclo[12.5.1.05,10.017,20]icosa-1,8,12-triene-7,18-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1E,5S,10R,12E,14R,16R,17S,20R)-16-hydroxy-8-methoxy-2,5,13,16-tetramethyl-9-propan-2-yl-6,15,19-trioxatetracyclo[12.5.1.05,10.017,20]icosa-1,8,12-triene-7,18-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1E,5S,10R,12Z,14S,16R,17S,20R)-16-hydroxy-2,5,13,16-tetramethyl-9-propan-2-yl-6,15,19-trioxatetracyclo[12.5.1.05,10.017,20]icosa-1,8,12-triene-7,18-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1E,5S,10R,12Z,14S,16R,17S,20R)-16-hydroxy-8-methoxy-2,5,13,16-tetramethyl-9-propan-2-yl-6,15,19-trioxatetracyclo[12.5.1.05,10.017,20]icosa-1,8,12-triene-7,18-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1E,5S,12Z,14R,16R,17S,20R)-16-hydroxy-2,5,13,16-tetramethyl-9-propan-2-yl-6,15,19-trioxatetracyclo[12.5.1.05,10.017,20]icosa-1,9,12-triene-7,18-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,3R,7S,12S,14R,15R,16S,17S,20Z,22E,24S,28R)-24-acetyl-28-hydroxy-10,16-dimethylspiro[2,5,13,18,25-pentaoxahexacyclo[22.3.1.114,17.01,3.07,12.07,16]nonacosa-10,20,22-triene-15,2'-oxirane]-4,19-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,3S,7R,12R,14R,15S,16S,17R,20Z,22E,24S,28S)-24-acetyl-28-hydroxy-10,16-dimethylspiro[2,5,13,18,25-pentaoxahexacyclo[22.3.1.114,17.01,3.07,12.07,16]nonacosa-10,20,22-triene-15,2'-oxirane]-4,19-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,4E,8R,9S,10E,14R)-8-[(1S)-1-hydroxyethyl]-1,4,11-trimethyl-15-propan-2-yl-6-oxatricyclo[12.3.0.05,9]heptadeca-4,10,15-triene-7,17-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,4E,8S,9S,10Z,14S)-8-[(1S)-1-hydroxyethyl]-1,4,11-trimethyl-15-propan-2-yl-6-oxatricyclo[12.3.0.05,9]heptadeca-4,10,15-triene-7,17-dione | 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 Stachybotrys chartarum 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Stachybotrys chartarum 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
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).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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 periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. 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 type1 363 records
Range
Depth
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 institutions9 of 22 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Uppsala, SE | 10 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 8 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 5 |
| Auckland, NZ | 5 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 3 |
| ARMS-MBONlocation not on record | 2 |
| Leicester, GB | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| Madison, US | 2 |
| UFPElocation not on record | 1 |
| Sydney Medical Schoollocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| ILLSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Durango, MX | 1 |
| Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centrelocation not on record | 1 |
| WU-MYClocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Athens, Hellenic Collection of Pathogenic Fungilocation not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record | 1 |
| 1 | |
| DPIlocation not on record | 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 Stachybotrys chartarum 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?
Measured at samplingin-field
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.