Astragalus mongholicus
Bunge · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Astragalus mongholicus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility737 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI66 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics86 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↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Astragalus propinquus (syn. Astragalus membranaceus, commonly known as Mongolian milkvetch in English; 'Хунчир' in Mongolian; huáng qí (), běi qí () or huáng huā huáng qí (), in Mongolia, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Mongolian medicine. It is a perennial plant and it is not listed as being threatened.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry3
Compounds documented for Astragalus mongholicus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds256 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Isomucronulatol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-lariciresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Medicarpin | present | NPASS | |
| (+)-Syringaresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (-)-Caryophyllene | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Syringaresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,3R,6S,8R,11S,12S,14S,15R,16R)-14-hydroxy-15-[(2R,5S)-5-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-2-methyloxolan-2-yl]-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-6-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxypentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-9-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,3R,6S,8R,11S,12S,14S,15R,16R)-15-[(2R,5S)-5,6-dihydroxy-6-methylheptan-2-yl]-14-hydroxy-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-6-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxypentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-9-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,3R,6S,8R,9S,11S,12S,14S,15R,16R)-15-[(2R,5R)-5-(2-Hydroxypropan-2-yl)-2-methyloxolan-2-yl]-7,7,12,16-tetramethylpentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecane-6,9,14-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,3R,8R,11S,12S,14S,15R,16R)-14-hydroxy-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-[(2S)-2-methyl-5-propan-2-yloxolan-2-yl]-6-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxypentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-9-one | present | LOTUS |
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 Astragalus mongholicus 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 Astragalus mongholicus 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 1629×CCDB · iapt · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +1
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 type737 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 institutions12 of 25 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 165 |
| Beijing, CN | 50 |
| Urumqi, CN | 7 |
| Kunming, CN | 5 |
| CASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 4 |
| Shanxi Institute of Biologylocation not on record | 4 |
| Wuhan, CN | 4 |
| Shanxi Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Kew, GB | 3 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Jishou Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Chengdu, CN | 2 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| SMMUlocation not on record | 2 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 1 |
| Xian, CN | 1 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| Royal Ontario Museum, Green Plant Herbarium (TRT)location not on record | 1 |
| Xinxiang, CN | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation 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 Astragalus mongholicus 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.