Asplenium septentrionale
(L.) Hoffm. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Asplenium septentrionale's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility54 319 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics15 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & 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 septentrionale is a species of fern known by the common names northern spleenwort and forked spleenwort. It is native to Europe, Asia and western North America, where it grows on rocks. Its long, slender leaves give it a distinctive appearance. Three subspecies exist, corresponding to a tetraploid and a diploid cytotype and their triploid hybrid.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction7
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry3
Other traits3
Compounds documented for Asplenium septentrionale across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds15 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (-)-Arctigenin | present | NPASS | |
| (3aR,4aS,5S,8aS,9aR)-5,8a-dimethyl-3-methylidene-3a,4,4a,5,9,9a-hexahydrobenzo[f][1]benzofuran-2,6-dione | present | NPASS | |
| (3R,3aR,4aS,5S,8S,8aR,9aR)-3,5,8a-trimethyl-8-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-3,3a,4,4a,5,6,7,8,9,9a-decahydrobenzo[f][1]benzofuran-2-one | present | NPASS | |
| 11,12,13-Trihydroxy-4(15),8-eudesmadiene-9-one | present | NPASS | |
| 3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-5,7-dihydroxy-2-[4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyphenyl]chromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6S)-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-7-[(2S,3S,4S,5S,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 6-Hydroxy-7-methoxychromen-4-one | present | NPASS | |
| [(1R,3S,4aS,6aS,6bR,8aR,11R,12S,12aR,14bS)-1-hydroxy-4,4,6a,6b,8a,11,12,14b-octamethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,12a-dodecahydro-1H-picen-3-yl] octadecanoate | present | NPASS | |
| Arctigenin, (+)- | present | NPASS | |
| beta-Sitosterol | 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 Asplenium septentrionale 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 septentrionale 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 14430×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · iber-fl +9
n 727×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · Cave1958 · CCDB · Cave1963 +1
n 361×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
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 type54 319 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 institutions106 of 189 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Olocation not on record | 501 |
| Helsinki, FI | 428 |
| LDlocation not on record | 359 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 268 |
| Bergen, NO | 238 |
| Trondheim, NO | 194 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 190 |
| South Kensington, GB | 162 |
| Zürich, CH | 154 |
| Turku, FI | 146 |
| Zürich, CH | 119 |
| Salzburg, AT | 115 |
| Xiamen, CN | 114 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 112 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 100 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 92 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 91 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 89 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 88 |
| Chicago, US | 86 |
| Kuopio, FI | 83 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 80 |
| Oulu, FI | 78 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 69 |
| Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 69 |
| Barcelona, ES | 65 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 58 |
| MAlocation not on record | 51 |
| Uppsala, SE | 51 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 48 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 48 |
| Urumqi, CN | 46 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 45 |
| Görlitz, DE | 43 |
| Bern, CH | 41 |
| Wellington, NZ | 40 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 35 |
| Vitoria, ES | 33 |
| Bronx, US | 27 |
| Urumqi, CN | 26 |
| Albuquerque, US | 25 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 24 |
| Wlocation not on record | 24 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 24 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 24 |
| BClocation not on record | 23 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 23 |
| Flagstaff, US | 22 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 22 |
| Granada, ES | 21 |
| Tampere, FI | 21 |
| Salamanca, ES | 21 |
| St. Paul, US | 20 |
| Dresden, DE | 18 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 18 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 17 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 16 |
| Chelyabinsk State Universitylocation not on record | 14 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 14 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 14 |
| Madrid, ES | 13 |
| Philadelphia, US | 12 |
| US | 12 |
| Minia, EG | 11 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 11 |
| Stockholm, SE | 11 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 11 |
| Institute of Biology Ufa Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 11 |
| Auckland, NZ | 11 |
| Paris, FR | 11 |
| EEZA-CSIClocation not on record | 10 |
| Denver, US | 10 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 10 |
| Beijing, CN | 10 |
| Porvoo, FI | 10 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 9 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 8 |
| Mlocation not on record | 8 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 8 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 8 |
| Glarus, CH | 8 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 8 |
| Pullman, US | 7 |
| Berlin, DE | 7 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 7 |
| PRClocation not on record | 7 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Lausanne, CH | 6 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 6 |
| Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V.location not on record | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| Vancouver, CA | 6 |
| Taipei, TW | 5 |
| Taipei, TW | 5 |
| Provo, US | 5 |
| Namur, BE | 5 |
| Badajoz, ES | 5 |
| SWlocation not on record | 5 |
| Bloomington, US | 5 |
| Durango, US | 5 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 5 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 4 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 4 |
| Alicante, ES | 4 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Durham, US | 4 |
| Tartu, EE | 3 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 3 |
| nbflocation not on record | 3 |
| San Diego, US | 3 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 3 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 3 |
| Sion, CH | 3 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bourges, FR | 3 |
| Ashland, US | 3 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 3 |
| Logan, US | 3 |
| Forssa, FI | 3 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 2 |
| Dhaka, BD | 2 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Silesia in Katowicelocation not on record | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 2 |
| Muzaffarabad, PK | 2 |
| 2 | |
| Garðabær, IS | 2 |
| Riverside, US | 2 |
| Tallinn, EE | 2 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| Columbia, US | 2 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 2 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Durham, US | 2 |
| Göteborg, SE | 2 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 2 |
| New Brunswick, US | 2 |
| Dekalb, US | 2 |
| Tampa, US | 2 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Tulane Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Calabar, NG | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fulda, DE | 1 |
| USFS/BHSClocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| UFRRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 1 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Monastir, TN | 1 |
| Cheney, US | 1 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| University of Salzburglocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Orientelocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Jurica-Suchy Nature Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| H-Wolflocation 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 septentrionale 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.