Atriplex
genusAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Atriplex's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation15 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 725 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System6 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI30 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics11 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Atriplex (Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607) is a plant genus of about 250 species, known by the common names of saltbush and orache (; also spelled orach). It belongs to the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae s.l.. The genus is quite variable and widely distributed. It includes many desert and seashore plants and halophytes, as well as plants of moist environments. The generic name originated in Latin and was applied by Pliny the Elder to the edible oraches. The name saltbush derives from the fact that the plants retain salt in their leaves; they are able to grow in areas affected by soil salination.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data 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 Atriplex 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.
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 solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Atriplex. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type24 732 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 institutions153 of 243 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Adelaide, AU | 345 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 294 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 152 |
| Tartu, EE | 150 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 150 |
| Kensington, AU | 112 |
| Philadelphia, US | 89 |
| LDlocation not on record | 86 |
| Helsinki, FI | 85 |
| Olocation not on record | 84 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 63 |
| Claremont, US | 60 |
| Canberra, AU | 55 |
| Riverside, US | 52 |
| Turku, FI | 50 |
| Uppsala, SE | 47 |
| Kew, GB | 43 |
| Saint Louis, US | 40 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 39 |
| Oulu, FI | 38 |
| Victoria, CA | 38 |
| Berlin, DE | 38 |
| New Haven, US | 38 |
| Saint John, CA | 33 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 32 |
| Brisbane, AU | 32 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 30 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 30 |
| CASlocation not on record | 29 |
| BClocation not on record | 29 |
| 29 | |
| Davis, US | 28 |
| Austin, US | 27 |
| Córdoba, AR | 27 |
| College Park, US | 27 |
| Bronx, US | 26 |
| WINlocation not on record | 25 |
| MAlocation not on record | 24 |
| Allentown, US | 22 |
| San Diego, US | 22 |
| Irvine, US | 21 |
| South Kensington, GB | 20 |
| Tallinn, EE | 19 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 17 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 17 |
| Barcelona, ES | 17 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 16 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 15 |
| Angwin, US | 15 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 15 |
| San Isidro, AR | 14 |
| Sanda, JP | 14 |
| Chicago, US | 14 |
| Mexico City, MX | 14 |
| Beijing, CN | 14 |
| Trondheim, NO | 14 |
| Albuquerque, US | 14 |
| Castelar, AR | 13 |
| Vancouver, CA | 13 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 13 |
| PRClocation not on record | 13 |
| Bangkok, TH | 13 |
| Durango, MX | 13 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 12 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 12 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 11 |
| Pullman, US | 11 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 11 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 10 |
| Phoenix, US | 10 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 10 |
| Flagstaff, US | 10 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 10 |
| San Francisco, US | 10 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 10 |
| Philadelphia, US | 10 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 9 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 9 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 9 |
| Sevilla, ES | 8 |
| UChlocation not on record | 8 |
| San Francisco, US | 8 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 8 |
| València, ES | 8 |
| Wlocation not on record | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 7 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 7 |
| Logan, US | 7 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 7 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 7 |
| Dresden, DE | 7 |
| Kuopio, FI | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 7 |
| Long Beach, US | 6 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 6 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 6 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 6 |
| Hobart, AU | 6 |
| Staten Island, US | 6 |
| Fort Worth, US | 5 |
| Bloomington, US | 5 |
| Garðabær, IS | 5 |
| Provo, US | 5 |
| US | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 5 |
| Xiamen, CN | 5 |
| La Paz, BO | 5 |
| Corvallis, US | 5 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 5 |
| IDElocation not on record | 4 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 4 |
| Mlocation not on record | 4 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Mississippi State, US | 4 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 4 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 4 |
| GB | 4 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 4 |
| Wellington, NZ | 4 |
| Mexico City, MX | 4 |
| Lubbock, US | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| University of Johannesburglocation not on record | 3 |
| Smithfield, AU | 3 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Burlington, US | 3 |
| Salvador, BR | 3 |
| Nunoa, Santiago, CL | 3 |
| Davenport, US | 3 |
| Xining, CN | 3 |
| Moscow, US | 3 |
| Granada, ES | 3 |
| Corrientes, AR | 3 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 3 |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Wienlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bern, CH | 3 |
| Northridge, US | 3 |
| Arequipa, PE | 3 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Armidale, AU | 2 |
| Bergen, NO | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 2 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Ensenada, MX | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 2 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Alicante, ES | 2 |
| Guasave, MX | 2 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Altos de Pipe, VE | 2 |
| Pocatello, US | 2 |
| Taipei, TW | 2 |
| Miami, US | 2 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 2 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 2 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 2 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 2 |
| Porvoo, FI | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| Urumqi, CN | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 2 |
| Blumenau, BR | 2 |
| La Trobe Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Juriquilla, MX | 1 |
| Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 1 |
| New Brunswick, US | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Palmerston, AU | 1 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 1 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Henderson State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovotlocation not on record | 1 |
| Viña del Mar, CL | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Botanische Staatssammlung Munchenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tacoma, US | 1 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| VALElocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Teresa, BR | 1 |
| Universidad Nacional del Comahuelocation not on record | 1 |
| FAVElocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| QCNElocation not on record | 1 |
| South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Glocation not on record | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 1 |
| Los Angeles, US | 1 |
| INMAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| Museo civico di Ecologia e Storia naturale di Marano sul Panarolocation not on record | 1 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | Via Giorgio La Pira headquarter of the Natural History Museum in Florencelocation not on record | 1 |
| Cochabamba, BO | 1 |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 1 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| San Luis Potosí, MX | 1 |
| IANIGLAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 1 |
| Harrisonburg, US | 1 |
| HUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| The Manitoba Museum, Botany Departmentlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lake Charles, US | 1 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| INFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Valparaiso, CL | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 1 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 1 |
| Brasília, BR | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Anchorage, US | 1 |
| St. Paul, US | 1 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Durango, US | 1 |
| Bozeman, US | 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 Atriplex 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?
Measured at samplingin-field
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.