Calanthe triplicata
(Willemet) Ames · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Calanthe triplicata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 781 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
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.
Calanthe triplicata commonly known as the common Christmas orchid is a plant in the orchid family and is native to Oceania, Asia, and the islands of eastern Africa. It is a terrestrial orchid that grows in clumps with crowded pseudobulbs, dark green corrugated leaves and up to forty white flowers. The sepals and petals are similar to each other and the labellum has three spreading lobes and a yellow callus.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction9
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Compounds documented for Calanthe triplicata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Documented compounds2 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indoxyl Sulfate | present | LOTUS | |
| Indoxyl-beta-D-glucoside | 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 Calanthe triplicata 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 Calanthe triplicata 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 4014×CCDB · book-ipcn65 · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 +3
2n 181×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 441×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
n 223×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
n 201×CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
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 type2 781 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 institutions32 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 |
|---|---|
| Brisbane, AU | 58 |
| Paris, FR | 44 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 43 |
| Canberra, AU | 38 |
| Smithfield, AU | 34 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 32 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 29 |
| Kagoshima, JP | 26 |
| Nishihara, JP | 25 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 23 |
| Taipei, TW | 22 |
| Bronx, US | 21 |
| Taipei, TW | 20 |
| Beijing, CN | 19 |
| Kunming, CN | 16 |
| Saint Louis, US | 15 |
| Armidale, AU | 8 |
| Université de Strasbourglocation not on record | 8 |
| Taipei, TW | 6 |
| Chicago, US | 5 |
| TNMlocation not on record | 5 |
| Xiamen, CN | 4 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 4 |
| Adelaide, AU | 4 |
| Ischia Marine Centrelocation not on record | 4 |
| Honolulu, US | 4 |
| Guilin, CN | 3 |
| Palmerston, AU | 3 |
| Fort Worth, US | 3 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 2 |
| Pondicherry, IN | 2 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 2 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Santo Tomas Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Nouvelle Calédonielocation not on record | 1 |
| James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record | 1 |
| Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)location not on record | 1 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Jinghong, CN | 1 |
| Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queensland Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Gump Stationlocation 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 Calanthe triplicata 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.