Cistanche phelypaea
(L.) Cout. · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Cistanche phelypaea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 218 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
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.
Cistanche phelypaea or Cistanche phelipaea is a species of plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It has a wide range of distribution from the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Desert in the east, through the Sahara, Cyprus, Crete and the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, to Macaronesia in the west.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction9
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment7
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Cistanche phelypaea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds120 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ((2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-6-(2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy)-5-hydroxy-2-(((2S,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl)oxymethyl)-4-((2R,3S,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl)oxyoxan-3-yl) (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-7-epi-Syringaresinol 4'-glucoside | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-syringaresinol beta-D-glucoside | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,4aR,7R,7aR)-7-hydroxy-7-methyl-1-[(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-4a,5,6,7a-tetrahydro-1H-cyclopenta[c]pyran-4-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,4aS,6S,7S,7aR)-6-hydroxy-7-methyl-1-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-1,4a,5,6,7,7a-hexahydrocyclopenta[c]pyran-4-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,4aS,7aS)-7-(hydroxymethyl)-1-[(2R,3S,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-1,4a,5,7a-tetrahydrocyclopenta[c]pyran-4-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,4aS,7S,7aS)-7-hydroxy-7-methyl-1-[(2R,3S,4R,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-4a,5,6,7a-tetrahydro-1H-cyclopenta[c]pyran-4-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2E,6E)-2,6-dimethyl-8-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyocta-2,6-dienoic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2E,6E)-3,7-dimethyl-8-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyocta-2,6-dienoic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2E,6E)-3,7-dimethyl-8-hydroxyoctadien-1-O-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 Cistanche phelypaea 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 Cistanche phelypaea 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 407×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +3
2n 421×CCDB · book-fedorov
n 207×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +1
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 type3 218 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 institutions18 of 31 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 18 |
| MAlocation not on record | 17 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 17 |
| Paris, FR | 8 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 7 |
| Alicante, ES | 7 |
| Barcelona, ES | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 5 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 5 |
| València, ES | 5 |
| BClocation not on record | 5 |
| LDlocation not on record | 4 |
| Vitoria, ES | 4 |
| South Kensington, GB | 4 |
| Jaén, ES | 3 |
| Badajoz, ES | 3 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 2 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| Zürich, CH | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| University of Hargeisalocation not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 1 |
| Granada, ES | 1 |
Where the DNA of Cistanche phelypaea 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.