Carex microglochin
Wahlenb. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Carex microglochin's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 288 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI27 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics48 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Carex microglochin, called the fewseeded bog sedge and bristle sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to temperate and subarctic North America, South America, Europe and Asia. It is uncertain which hemisphere it originated on before dispersing to the other.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology9
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry1
Other traits1
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 Carex microglochin 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 Carex microglochin 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
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 587×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +3
2n 483×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn72
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 type7 288 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions67 of 136 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Trondheim, NO | 345 |
| Olocation not on record | 262 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 186 |
| Uppsala, SE | 143 |
| LDlocation not on record | 133 |
| Garðabær, IS | 113 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 76 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 64 |
| Helsinki, FI | 56 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 55 |
| 39 | |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 33 |
| Bergen, NO | 30 |
| Montréal, CA | 24 |
| Xining, CN | 21 |
| Bronx, US | 21 |
| Vancouver, CA | 20 |
| Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record | 18 |
| South Kensington, GB | 18 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 18 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 17 |
| Zürich, CH | 17 |
| Toronto, CA | 16 |
| Bern, CH | 16 |
| WINlocation not on record | 16 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 14 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 13 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 13 |
| Zürich, CH | 13 |
| Chicago, US | 12 |
| Madison, US | 11 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 9 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 8 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 8 |
| St. Paul, US | 7 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 7 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| Anchorage, US | 6 |
| Aarhus, DK | 6 |
| Québec, CA | 6 |
| Elocation not on record | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 5 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 5 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 5 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 5 |
| Salzburg, AT | 5 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 5 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Turku, FI | 5 |
| Oulu, FI | 5 |
| nbflocation not on record | 4 |
| San Isidro, AR | 4 |
| University of Manitoba Herbariumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 4 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 4 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 4 |
| Wellington, NZ | 4 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 3 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Readinglocation not on record | 3 |
| Albuquerque, US | 3 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 3 |
| Kuopio, FI | 3 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 3 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 3 |
| LIVlocation not on record | 3 |
| Dhaka, BD | 3 |
| Flagstaff, US | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| GINRlocation not on record | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| BClocation not on record | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 2 |
| Phoenix, US | 2 |
| Bloomington, US | 2 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 2 |
| Victoria, CA | 2 |
| University of Toronto Mississaugalocation not on record | 2 |
| AASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 2 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Castelar, AR | 2 |
| Fundación Miguel Lillolocation not on record | 2 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 1 |
| NAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cuenca, EC | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Glocation not on record | 1 |
| BIRM|HDDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| University of Birminghamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint John, CA | 1 |
| BM|NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Missoula, US | 1 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Clocation not on record | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| E|PTHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| E|LIVlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| UTPLlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Buenos Aireslocation not on record | 1 |
| Durango, US | 1 |
| Porvoo, FI | 1 |
| Fribourg, CH | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Yellowstone National Park Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
Where the DNA of Carex microglochin 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.