ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Fouquieria splendens Engelm.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Fouquieria splendens
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.: Engelm.
Common names: ocotillo, vine-cactus
Names in other languages (12)
Albarda, Cardo santo, Chiquiñá, Okotillo, Tacote, fukéria žiarivá, hehkuokotillo, okotijo błyszczące, utush, xeshish, Фукьерия блестящая, 福桂树
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).: Ericales
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).: Fouquieriaceae
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.: Fouquieria
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.: splendens
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Fouquieria splendens
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 available.

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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: 1 of 10 has its flowers visited by × 9 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 45 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
Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae Trochilidae	has its flowers visited by	41	not compared
41 sources · 43 records https://www.desertmuseum.org/pollination/hummingbirds.php Published in millerse/Hummingbird-and-Flower-Interactions Record contexts (sample): Sonora · no date published; Sonora · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108709234 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · March 27, 2017 · Human observation; no place published · March 27, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67048 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 14, 2012 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197469338 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 24, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202759914 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 15, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203182712 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 15, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203660415 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 21, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204276049 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 17, 2024 · Human observation And 33 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus Icteridae	has its flowers visited by	20	not compared
20 sources · 20 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205198456 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 2, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212412983 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 28, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213151633 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 3, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213272554 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110322592 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 3, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214117654 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 5, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/219664273 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 28, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10441157 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 27, 2018 · Human observation And 12 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna Trochilidae	has its flowers visited by	11	not compared
11 sources · 11 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102680306 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 7, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105676419 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 25, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117799309 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221838308 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 25, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12881106 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 27, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24768295 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 4, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138206208 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 10, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38629739 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Feb. 12, 2020 · Human observation And 3 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii Icteridae	has its flowers visited by	11	not compared
11 sources · 11 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204323031 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 27, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205161208 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 2, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205797504 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 6, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207325301 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 1, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207325304 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 1, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212903767 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111738169 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 16, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116188247 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 16, 2022 · Human observation And 3 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

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.