Asplenium aethiopicum
(Burm.fil.) Bech. · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Asplenium aethiopicum's data was compiled from.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 511 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Asplenium aethiopicum is een varen uit de streepvarenfamilie (Aspleniaceae). Het is een soort van subtropische en tropische streken van Afrika, India en Macaronesië.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology7
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry2
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 Asplenium aethiopicum 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 Asplenium aethiopicum 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 2889×CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · book-LoveLove1977 · CCDB · Cave1962
2n 1442×CCDB · book-LoveLove1977
2n 2161×CCDB · book-LoveLove1977
2n 4321×CCDB · book-LoveLove1977
n 1445×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · Cave1956supp
n 721×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 1801×CCDB · barker-ferns
n 2161×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
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 type3 511 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 institutions56 of 110 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Pretoria, ZA | 312 |
| Saint Louis, US | 261 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 253 |
| Kew, GB | 180 |
| Olocation not on record | 144 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 144 |
| Kensington, AU | 72 |
| South Kensington, GB | 71 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 36 |
| Zürich, CH | 36 |
| Paris, FR | 35 |
| LDlocation not on record | 32 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 29 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 21 |
| Wellington, NZ | 21 |
| Auckland, NZ | 20 |
| Canberra, AU | 19 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 19 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 19 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 18 |
| Xiamen, CN | 17 |
| Plocation not on record | 15 |
| Berlin, DE | 14 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 13 |
| MAlocation not on record | 13 |
| Chicago, US | 13 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 13 |
| Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record | 12 |
| National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record | 12 |
| Bronx, US | 11 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 11 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 11 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 10 |
| Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellín (JBM)location not on record | 10 |
| Guatemala City, GT | 10 |
| Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles (CRSN/Lwiro)location not on record | 8 |
| Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developement Rurallocation not on record | 8 |
| Stockholm, SE | 8 |
| Uppsala, SE | 8 |
| Vancouver, CA | 7 |
| Mexico City, MX | 7 |
| Glocation not on record | 7 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 7 |
| Université du Lomélocation not on record | 7 |
| Honolulu, US | 7 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 5 |
| Adelaide, AU | 5 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 5 |
| Brisbane, AU | 5 |
| Fort Worth, US | 5 |
| BRLUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| HUAlocation not on record | 5 |
| San José, CR | 4 |
| Wlocation not on record | 4 |
| Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropicallocation not on record | 4 |
| Durango, MX | 3 |
| Addis Ababa, ET | 3 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 3 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 3 |
| Zürich, CH | 3 |
| Arusha, TZ | 3 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 3 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Parkville, AU | 3 |
| UTPLlocation not on record | 3 |
| Dresden, DE | 2 |
| Seychelles National Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| BMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Civico Museo di Scienze naturali Giuseppe Orlandilocation not on record | 2 |
| Göteborg, SE | 2 |
| Haramaya Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| EAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Aarhus, DK | 2 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 2 |
| Elocation not on record | 2 |
| Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation not on record | 2 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 2 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 1 |
| National Herbarium of São Tomé and Principelocation not on record | 1 |
| Montpellier, FR | 1 |
| James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG)location not on record | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| St. Paul, US | 1 |
| Smithfield, AU | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Altos de Pipe, VE | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation not on record | 1 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 1 |
| Durban, ZA | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Dublin, IE | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| FTlocation not on record | 1 |
| Clocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 1 |
| Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellínlocation not on record | 1 |
| Giardini Botanici Hanburylocation not on record | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| Calabar, NG | 1 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 1 |
| BGPAlocation not on record | 1 |
| COLlocation 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 Asplenium aethiopicum 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.