Anthyllis montana
speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Anthyllis montana's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility31 037 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 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
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Anthyllis montana (syn. Vulneraria montana Scopoli), the mountain kidney vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the mountains of Southern Europe and parts of the Alps. Growing to 30 cm tall by 60 cm broad, it is a clump-forming, woody-based perennial. The leaves are divided into numerous fern-like leaflets and are silky and grey-green in colour. The white, pink or purple clover-like flower-heads are borne in spring and summer. The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.Archibald William Smith In cultivation, it is suitable for the alpine or rock garden. The cultivar 'Rubra' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It does best in full sun, and typically propagates by seeds. The flowers are used to make an herbal tisane that is said to ease digestion.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology7
Life cycle & reproduction6
Habitat & environment4
Physiology & chemistry2
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 Anthyllis montana 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 Anthyllis montana 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 1411×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 +2
2n 288×CCDB · book-ipcn65 · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
2n 124×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 76×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 145×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
diploid 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 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 type31 037 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 institutions36 of 68 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| BDBClocation not on record | 69 |
| Barcelona, ES | 67 |
| Vitoria, ES | 55 |
| LDlocation not on record | 50 |
| BClocation not on record | 35 |
| MAlocation not on record | 35 |
| Madrid, ES | 27 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 19 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 16 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 13 |
| Bourges, FR | 13 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 12 |
| Granada, ES | 12 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 10 |
| Salamanca, ES | 10 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 9 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 9 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 9 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 8 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 8 |
| Wlocation not on record | 8 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 7 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 5 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 5 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 4 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 4 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 4 |
| Berlin, DE | 4 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 4 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Salzburg, AT | 3 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 2 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 2 |
| Bangkok, TH | 2 |
| PRClocation not on record | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| Bern, CH | 2 |
| Arequipa, PE | 2 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| Pamplona, ES | 2 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Monastir, TN | 2 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 1 |
| València, ES | 1 |
| sonstHerblocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Québec, CA | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| SNSNMClocation not on record | 1 |
| JBCLMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wellington, NZ | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation 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 Anthyllis montana 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?
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.