Calandrinia ciliata
(Ruiz & Pav.) DC. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Calandrinia ciliata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 769 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI23 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics24 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Calandrinia feltonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name Felton's flower. It is named after Arthur Felton, a resident of the Falkland Islands, who sent specimens of the plant in 1910 to Swedish botanist Carl Skottsberg.Hince (2000), p.127. It is endemic to the Falklands where it nearly became extinct in the wild through overgrazing. It is an annual herb, low-growing and fleshy, with bright, pinkish-purple flowers.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology18
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry5
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 Calandrinia ciliata 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 Calandrinia ciliata 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 244×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · eflora · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 463×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 481×CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
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 type1 769 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 institutions68 of 97 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Riverside, US | 228 |
| Claremont, US | 193 |
| San Diego, US | 184 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 144 |
| US | 62 |
| Phoenix, US | 48 |
| Arcata, US | 43 |
| CASlocation not on record | 35 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 34 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 32 |
| Saint Louis, US | 28 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 27 |
| Angwin, US | 26 |
| Flagstaff, US | 25 |
| Pullman, US | 20 |
| Northridge, US | 19 |
| Hobart, AU | 18 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 18 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 15 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 14 |
| EL PASO, US | 14 |
| Irvine, US | 13 |
| Los Angeles, US | 13 |
| Bloomington, US | 11 |
| Provo, US | 11 |
| Hermosillo, MX | 9 |
| Kew, GB | 9 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 8 |
| Victoria, CA | 6 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 5 |
| Henderson, US | 5 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 5 |
| San Jose, US | 5 |
| Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| LDlocation not on record | 4 |
| Bronx, US | 4 |
| Tacoma, US | 4 |
| Tampa, US | 4 |
| Logan, US | 4 |
| Ensenada, MX | 3 |
| Boise, US | 3 |
| Ashland, US | 3 |
| Kensington, AU | 3 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 3 |
| Tempe, US | 3 |
| Moscow, US | 3 |
| US | 3 |
| Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologialocation not on record | 3 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 2 |
| Turlock, US | 2 |
| Vancouver, CA | 2 |
| Brisbane, AU | 2 |
| Albuquerque, US | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Helsinki, FI | 2 |
| Bangkok, TH | 2 |
| Corvallis, US | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Universidad de Nariño (UdeNar)location not on record | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| Giardini Botanici Hanburylocation not on record | 2 |
| San Isidro, AR | 2 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| San Bernardino, US | 1 |
| MEXUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 1 |
| UChlocation not on record | 1 |
| Guasave, MX | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Fullerton, US | 1 |
| La Paz, BO | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Orem, US | 1 |
| Mérida, MX | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record | 1 |
| The University of Arizonalocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Adelaide, AU | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of British Columbialocation not on record | 1 |
| Olocation not on record | 1 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 1 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Grand Junction, US | 1 |
| Emporia, US | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 1 |
| Wlocation 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 Calandrinia ciliata 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.