Cerinthe major
speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Cerinthe major's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 107 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 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
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Cerinthe major, called honeywort along with other members of its genus, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cerinthe, native to the Mediterranean region, and introduced to New Zealand. Gardeners have a choice along a spectrum of cultivars ranging from Cerinthe major subsp. major, with sea-green bracts and yellow flowers, to Cerinthe major subsp. purpurascens with blue bracts and purple flowers.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology11
Life cycle & reproduction4
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment7
Physiology & chemistry1
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 Cerinthe major 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 Cerinthe major 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 1620×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +6
n 85×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
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 type8 107 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 institutions35 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| LDlocation not on record | 65 |
| Berlin, DE | 56 |
| MAlocation not on record | 39 |
| Córdoba, ES | 30 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 27 |
| BClocation not on record | 25 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 24 |
| Barcelona, ES | 21 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 19 |
| Auckland, NZ | 14 |
| Wlocation not on record | 12 |
| Jaén, ES | 12 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 11 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 11 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 9 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 9 |
| València, ES | 9 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 7 |
| Badajoz, ES | 7 |
| Salamanca, ES | 6 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| Sevilla, ES | 5 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Olocation not on record | 4 |
| Granada, ES | 3 |
| Wellington, NZ | 3 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 3 |
| Madrid, ES | 3 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| Davis, US | 2 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bern, CH | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 2 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 2 |
| Alicante, ES | 2 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 2 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Trondheim, NO | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 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 Cerinthe major 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.