Astrolepis cochisensis is a species of fern known by the common name Cochise scaly cloak fern. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it occupies mainly desert habitat, often on calcareous soils.
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 Astrolepis cochisensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences4
eDNA detections1
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
Astrolepis cochisensis voucher R. D. Worthington 35031 ribulose-1,5-bisphoshpate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene, partial cds; chloroplast
Marker genes sequenced
★ 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★rbcL3
plant barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualAstrolepis cochisensis 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.
Chromosomes2n = 116 n = 58
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Knobloch, I. W. & W. Tai. 1978. The chromosome numbers of Notholaena cochisensis. Amer. Fern J. 68: 63.
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Knobloch & Tai 1978
CCDB · eflora
2n 1161×CCDB · eflora
CCDB · eflora
n 873×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Knobloch, I. W. & W. Tai. 1978. The chromosome numbers of Notholaena cochisensis. Amer. Fern J. 68: 63.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Windham, M. D. & G. Yatskievych. 2003. Chromosome studies of cheilanthoid ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae) from the western United States and Mexico. Amer. J. Bot. 90(12): 1788–1800.
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Knobloch & Tai 1978
n 1162×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Benham, D. M. & M. D. Windham. 1992. Generic affinities of the star-scaled cloak ferns. Amer. Fern J. 82(2): 47–58.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Windham, M. D. & G. Yatskievych. 2003. Chromosome studies of cheilanthoid ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae) from the western United States and Mexico. Amer. J. Bot. 90(12): 1788–1800.
07Deep time~2.14 Ma lineage
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
DNA clock origin2.14 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 482 records
Wild obs. + sensor992
Museum / vouchered486
Cultivated / captive4
Origin
Native23
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 048 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 accuracy91% within 1 km
≤100 m 650≤1 km 73≤10 km 24>10 km 47
794 georeferenced · 198 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor992
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 accuracy71% within 1 km
≤100 m 62≤1 km 47≤10 km 30>10 km 15
154 georeferenced · 332 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence486
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 4 records without
Open the mapnot free-living4
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 institutions34 of 47 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Austin, US
66
Bronx, US
63
ASUlocation not on record
54
EL PASO, US
46
Phoenix, US
40
Austin, US
29
Flagstaff, US
25
Claremont, US
24
Saint Louis, US
12
Riverside, US
12
San Diego, US
11
Guasave, MX
9
Fort Worth, US
7
Albuquerque, US
7
Giardini Botanici Hanburylocation not on record
6
San Angelo, US
6
Mexico City, MX
5
Hermosillo, MX
5
Durango, MX
5
St. Paul, US
4
Santa Barbara, US
3
Arcata, US
3
Edinburgh, GB
2
San Luis Obispo, US
2
Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record
2
Taipei, TW
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Bloomington, US
1
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
1
Northridge, US
1
Davis, US
1
Los Angeles, US
1
Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record
1
Arizona Western Collegelocation not on record
1
Minia, EG
1
Ann Arbor, US
1
Facultad de Zootecnia y Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahualocation not on record
1
Whitehorse, CA
1
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciencelocation not on record
1
CASlocation not on record
1
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
1
BAYLUlocation not on record
1
Burlington, US
1
Durham, US
1
US
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Ensenada, MX
1
47 institutions · 472 of 486 vouchered records shown · 14 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Astrolepis cochisensis 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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 median12.5 °C 12.5–12.5
Seasonal swing summer↔winter27.0 °C
Max temp (day)18.4 °C
Min temp (night)8.20 °C
Precipitation79.6 mm/mo
Air humidity57.3 %
Moisture balance-38.4 mm/mo
Vapour deficit733 Pa
Wind speed5.80 m/s
Cloud cover36.7 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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 482 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗