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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements2 literature sources11 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF406 records
Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 18
01Narrative
Brickellia incana is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name woolly brickellbush. It is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States, in California, Nevada, and Arizona.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Brickellia incana is a shrub growing in a spherical clump on the sandy desert floor, 40 centimeters to 1 meter tall. The leaves are gray-green to white with a thin coat of woolly fibers, oval in shape and up to 3 centimeters long. The inflorescences hold solitary flower heads, each about 2.4 centimeters long and lined with woolly gray-green to grayish purple phyllaries. Each flower head holds an array of about 60 red, yellowish, or grayish disc florets. The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene about a centimeter long with a pappus of bristles.Flora of North America, Brickellia incana A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 7: 350. 1868.
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 Brickellia incana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualBrickellia incana 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.
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
2n 182×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · eflora
CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 — GAISER, L.O. 1953. Chromosome studies in Kuhniinae (Eupatorieae). I. Brickellia. Rhodora 55: 253-267.
CCDB · eflora
2n 271×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — King, R. M., D. W. Kyhos, A. M. Powell, P. H. Raven & H. Robinson. 1976 [1977]. Chromosome numbers in Compositae. XIII. Eupatorieae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 63(4): 862–888.
n 92×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Parfitt, B. D., M. A. Baker & M. L. Gallagher. 1985. Chromosome Number Reports LXXXVI. Taxon 34: 159–164.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Strother, J. L. 1976a. Chromosome studies in Compositae. Amer. J. Bot. 63: 247–250.
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy83% within 1 km
≤100 m 63≤1 km 4≤10 km 6>10 km 8
81 georeferenced · 26 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor107
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 accuracy52% within 1 km
≤100 m 10≤1 km 59≤10 km 52>10 km 12
133 georeferenced · 166 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence299
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 institutions25 of 36 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Claremont, US
79
Riverside, US
44
ASUlocation not on record
18
Phoenix, US
18
San Diego, US
15
Santa Barbara, US
12
Flagstaff, US
12
San Luis Obispo, US
8
CASlocation not on record
8
Bronx, US
6
Los Angeles, US
6
US
4
Davis, US
3
Pocatello, US
3
Wuzhou, CN
3
EL PASO, US
3
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
3
Arcata, US
3
Logan, US
2
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
2
Henderson, US
2
Northridge, US
2
Irvine, US
2
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
1
San Jose, US
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Arizona Western Collegelocation not on record
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Angwin, US
1
Fort Worth, US
1
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
36 institutions · 271 of 299 vouchered records shown · 28 without an institution code
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GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype