Apluda mutica
speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Apluda mutica's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 462 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 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↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Apluda is a genus of plants in the grass family native to Asia and to various islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The only known species is Apluda mutica, native to Central Asia, China (incl. Taiwan + Tibet), Japan (incl Ryukyu Islands), Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Caroline Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Socotra, Oman. Formerly included see Andropogon, Ichnanthus, Ischaemum, Polytoca, Themeda, Zeugites
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction7
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment12
Physiology & chemistry1
Other traits1
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 Apluda mutica 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 Apluda mutica 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 2018×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 +5
2n 405×CCDB · book-indian_vol2 · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 601×CCDB · book-indian_vol2
2n 801×CCDB · book-indian_vol2
n 1016×CCDB · iapt · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn72 +5
n 302×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
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 type1 462 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 institutions55 of 90 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Taipei, TW | 127 |
| Baroda, IN | 89 |
| Beijing, CN | 87 |
| Kunming, CN | 59 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 56 |
| Chengdu, CN | 56 |
| Canberra, AU | 55 |
| Guilin, CN | 54 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 38 |
| Nishihara, JP | 35 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 30 |
| Kew, GB | 25 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 25 |
| Chengdu, CN | 23 |
| Brisbane, AU | 22 |
| nlocation not on record | 20 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 17 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 16 |
| South Kensington, GB | 15 |
| Pondicherry, IN | 13 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 12 |
| Odawara, JP | 11 |
| Université de Strasbourglocation not on record | 11 |
| Sanda, JP | 10 |
| Taipei, TW | 10 |
| Berlin, DE | 9 |
| Dehra Dun, IN | 9 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 8 |
| Nanjing, CN | 8 |
| QAUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 7 |
| Smithfield, AU | 6 |
| Bronx, US | 6 |
| Taipei, TW | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| Xiamen, CN | 5 |
| Palmerston, AU | 5 |
| J.F.Oberlin Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Yangling, CN | 5 |
| Seoul, KR | 5 |
| Xining, CN | 5 |
| Wlocation not on record | 4 |
| Nagano City, JP | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 4 |
| Hazara Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Nishihara, JP | 4 |
| Hanshan Normal Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Scienceslocation not on record | 3 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 3 |
| Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 3 |
| Zürich, CH | 3 |
| Honolulu, US | 3 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 3 |
| Nagasaki University - Fisherieslocation not on record | 3 |
| CASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record | 2 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| Plocation not on record | 2 |
| Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record | 2 |
| Shanghai, CN | 2 |
| Changsha, CN | 2 |
| BClocation not on record | 2 |
| Department of Plant Resources, National Herbarium and Plant Laboratorieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| NGCPR00948location not on record | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| BMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pennsylvania Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Government College University Lahore, Dr. Sultan Ahmad Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Muzaffarabad, PK | 1 |
| NGCPR00949location not on record | 1 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| South China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Xian, CN | 1 |
| Awka, NG | 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 Apluda mutica 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.