Asperula tinctoria
speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Asperula tinctoria's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 565 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI23 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Asperula tinctoria, common name dyer's woodruff, is a plant in the family Rubiaceae, a native of much of northern and central Europe from France to Russia and also of Western Siberia.Hylander, Nils. 1945. Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift 7: 298, Galium triandrumSoó von Bere, Károly Rezsö. 1974. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 85: 435, Asperula tinctoria subsp. hungarorumJávorka, Sándor. 1925. Magyar Flóra 1037, Asperula hungarorum
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment7
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits2
Compounds documented for Asperula tinctoria across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile3 classes
Documented compounds4 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-2-[2-[(3R,5S,6S,9R,10R)-9-hydroxy-6,10-dimethylspiro[4.5]decan-3-yl]propan-2-yloxy]-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-2-[2-[(3R,5S,6S,9S,10S)-9-hydroxy-6,10-dimethylspiro[4.5]decan-3-yl]propan-2-yloxy]-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| Sitogluside | present | NPASS | |
| Stigmasterol | present | NPASS |
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 Asperula tinctoria 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 Asperula tinctoria 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).
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 228×GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl +3
2n 448×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · poland · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +3
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Record type13 565 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 institutions33 of 71 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 261 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 234 |
| LDlocation not on record | 217 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 146 |
| Uppsala, SE | 134 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 125 |
| Tartu, EE | 105 |
| Tallinn, EE | 72 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 60 |
| Zürich, CH | 41 |
| Bern, CH | 41 |
| Mlocation not on record | 29 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 23 |
| KFGBlocation not on record | 21 |
| Wlocation not on record | 18 |
| Turku, FI | 13 |
| Stockholm, SE | 12 |
| Olocation not on record | 11 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 10 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Philadelphia, US | 8 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Helsinki, FI | 6 |
| Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V.location not on record | 6 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 5 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 5 |
| Oulu, FI | 5 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 5 |
| PRClocation not on record | 5 |
| Dresden, DE | 5 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 4 |
| Bergen, NO | 4 |
| Görlitz, DE | 4 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 3 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| Bronx, US | 3 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 3 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 3 |
| Kuopio, FI | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 3 |
| Porvoo, FI | 2 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 2 |
| Salzburg, AT | 2 |
| Trondheim, NO | 2 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bourges, FR | 2 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 2 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 2 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 1 |
| München, DE | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Universität Erlangen-Nürnberglocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 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 Asperula tinctoria 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.