Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Common names
horse balls
Names in other languages (6)Huevo de caballo, cojones de burro, cojotón, cojón de mico, huevos de caballo, 馬蛋山馬茶
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Gentianales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Apocynaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Tabernaemontana
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
donnell-smithii
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 06:55.
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Lauren Bosch · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Irene · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Devon Bradley · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Henggang Cui · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii Rose ex J.D.Sm.
Photo: Lon Brehmer · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 06:55.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 5 of 5 is a symbiont of × is eaten by × is a host of × is pollinated by × has its flowers visited by ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is a symbiont of 99 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Rollrim Mould Penicillium brevicompactum Aspergillaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared
Thelonectria pelargonii Nectriaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared
Marquandomyces marquandii Clavicipitaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared
Ascomycota sp. is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Showing 4 of 99, by number of studies See more of this type

is eaten by 10 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus Thraupidae is eaten by 3 not compared
White-throated Magpie-Jay Calocitta formosa Corvidae is eaten by 2 no location
Syringophilopsis icteri Syringophilidae is eaten by 2 no location
Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii Picidae is eaten by 2 not compared
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is a host of 4 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA5817 Crambidae is a host of 8 not compared
BOLD:AAA0539 Crambidae is a host of 7 not compared
BOLD:AAA8738 Crambidae is a host of 4 not compared
BOLD:AAA7588 Crambidae is a host of 2 not compared
Showing 4 of 4, by number of studies

Pollination

is pollinated by 2 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Eulaema Ant Flies Eulaema Apidae is pollinated by 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Typical Orchid Bees Euglossa Apidae is pollinated by 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Eulaema polychroma Apidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Belted Orchid bee Eulaema cingulata Apidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.