Aspidotis californica is a species of fern known by the common name California lacefern. It is native to California and Baja California. It grows in rock cracks and crevices in many types of habitat, including Chaparral, Yellow pine forest, Foothill oak woodland, and Valley grassland.Jepson: Aspidotis californica
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Aspidotis californica has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens3
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences5
eDNA detections3
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK1★rbcL4★rbcLa
plant barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualAspidotis californica 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.
CCDB · book-LoveLove1977 — Knobloch (in Fabbri 1965)
CCDB · book-LoveLove1977 — Knobloch 1966
CCDB · book-LoveLove1977 — Smith, A. R. 1975
CCDB · eflora
2n 1201×CCDB · book-LoveLove1977
CCDB · book-LoveLove1977 — Smith, A. R. 1975
n 302×CCDB · book-ipcn66 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
CCDB · book-ipcn66 — Knobloch 1966
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — NA
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 409 records
Wild obs. + sensor725
Museum / vouchered684
Origin
Native83
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 736 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 413≤1 km 52≤10 km 24>10 km 18
507 georeferenced · 218 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor725
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.
Coordinate accuracy56% within 1 km
≤100 m 25≤1 km 193≤10 km 158>10 km 14
390 georeferenced · 294 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence684
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions33 of 46 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
San Diego, US
131
Claremont, US
92
Santa Barbara, US
65
Riverside, US
58
Los Angeles, US
28
Irvine, US
20
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
18
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
17
Angwin, US
17
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
15
CASlocation not on record
15
San Luis Obispo, US
13
Davis, US
13
St. Paul, US
12
WTUlocation not on record
12
Long Beach, US
12
US
12
Minia, EG
9
Santa Cruz, US
7
Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record
7
Flagstaff, US
6
Knoxville, US
5
Auckland, NZ
5
US
4
Arcata, US
4
Madison, US
4
San Francisco, US
3
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
3
Northridge, US
3
Bronx, US
2
Tampa, US
2
San Jose, US
2
Wellington, NZ
2
San Francisco, US
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
Austin, US
2
Catalina Island Conservancylocation not on record
1
Chapel Hill, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Logan, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
1
Calabar, NG
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
46 institutions · 634 of 684 vouchered records shown · 49 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA3 detections
Where the DNA of Aspidotis californica 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
Detections DNA found3
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 3 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Chaparral with Xylococcus bicolor, Adenostom…
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median13.8 °C 12.7–14.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.6 °C
Max temp (day)19.4 °C 18.6–20.2
Min temp (night)9.20 °C 8.40–10.0
Precipitation53.9 mm/mo 33.3–74.5
Air humidity58.6 % 57.6–59.6
Moisture balance-63.3 mm/mo -83.3–-43.4
Vapour deficit712 Pa 695–729
Wind speed3.70 m/s 2.00–5.40
Cloud cover33.5 % 30.9–36.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 409 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗