Carpinus
genusAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Carpinus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation15 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 887 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Accepted species: Carpinus betulus – European hornbeam - Europe to Western Asia; naturalized in North America. Carpinus caroliniana – American hornbeam - Eastern North America Carpinus chuniana – Guangdong, Guizhou, Hubei Carpinus cordata – Sawa hornbeam - Primorye, China, Korea, Japan Carpinus dayongiana – Hunan Carpinus eximia – Korea Carpinus faginea – Nepal, Himalayas of northern India Carpinus fangiana – Sichuan, Guangxi Carpinus hebestroma – Taiwan Carpinus henryana – southern China Carpinus japonica Blume – Japanese hornbeam - Japan Carpinus kawakamii – Taiwan, southeastern China Carpinus kweichowensis – Guizhou, Yunnan Carpinus langaoensis – Shaanxi, China Carpinus laxiflora – Aka-shide hornbeam - Japan, Korea Carpinus lipoensis – Guizhou Carpinus londoniana – southern China, northern Indochina Carpinus luochengensis – Guangxi Carpinus mengshanensis – Shandong Carpinus microphylla – Guangxi Carpinus mollicoma – Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan Carpinus monbeigiana – Tibet, Yunnan Carpinus omeiensis – Sichuan, Guizhou Carpinus orientalis – Oriental hornbeam - Hungary, Balkans, Italy, Crimea, Turkey, Iran, Caucasus Carpinus paohsingensis – China †Carpinus perryae - Ypresian, Klondike Mountain Formation Carpinus polyneura – southern China Carpinus pubescens – China, Vietnam Carpinus purpurinervis – Guizhou, Guangxi Carpinus putoensis – Putuo hornbeam - Zhejiang Carpinus rankanensis – Taiwan Carpinus rupestris – Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou Carpinus shensiensis – Gansu, Shaanxi Carpinus shimenensis – Hunan †Carpinus tengshongensis – Pliocene Yunnan Province Carpinus tropicalis – Mexico, Central America Carpinus tsaiana – Yunnan, Guizhou Carpinus tschonoskii – Chonowski's hornbeam - China, Korea, Japan Carpinus turczaninowii – Korean hornbeam, - China, Korea, Japan Carpinus viminea – China, Korea, Himalayas, northern Indochina
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 Carpinus 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 periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Carpinus. Above itBeside it, the bars count how many dated finds fall in each slice of time; the tallest bar is labelled, and heights use a square-root scale so that thin slices stay visible next to rich ones. Read this as how well each stretch of time is preserved and studied — thick bars mean plenty of the right kind of rock and plenty of collectors, which is related to, but not the same as, how common it actually was.
How it livedPBDB
Record type3 020 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 institutions48 of 78 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 137 |
| Berlin, DE | 94 |
| Mlocation not on record | 48 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 42 |
| Beijing, CN | 33 |
| Shanghai, CN | 26 |
| Nanjing, CN | 16 |
| Seoul, KR | 14 |
| Görlitz, DE | 13 |
| Changsha, CN | 12 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 10 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| Chengdu, CN | 8 |
| Guiyang, CN | 7 |
| Hobart, AU | 7 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Durango, MX | 6 |
| Siouxland Heritage Museumlocation not on record | 6 |
| MAlocation not on record | 6 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 5 |
| Guilin, CN | 5 |
| ifplocation not on record | 5 |
| Kunming, CN | 4 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 4 |
| Wuhan, CN | 4 |
| SCAUlocation not on record | 4 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Taipei, TW | 3 |
| Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld)location not on record | 3 |
| Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Chinese Academy of Forestrylocation not on record | 3 |
| Southwest Forestry Collegelocation not on record | 3 |
| Nagasaki University - Fisherieslocation not on record | 2 |
| Austin, US | 2 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Xining, CN | 2 |
| Adelaide, AU | 2 |
| Canberra, AU | 2 |
| Bronx, US | 2 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Researchlocation not on record | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 2 |
| Wuhan, CN | 2 |
| Urumqi, CN | 2 |
| Shanghai, CN | 2 |
| Xian, CN | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Austin, US | 2 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Yangling, CN | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| La Trobe Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 1 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Juriquilla, MX | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 1 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Instituto de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record | 1 |
| Zhuzhou, CN | 1 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brisbane, AU | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, US | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 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 Carpinus 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.