Dactylorhiza elata
(Poir.) Soó · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Dactylorhiza elata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 828 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics9 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 & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Dactylorhiza elata, the robust marsh orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to the western Mediterranean region (France (including Corsica), Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesCastroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2005). Flora Iberica 21: 1-366. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.Baumann, B. & Baumann, H. (2005). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Orchideenflora Nordwestafrikas. Journal Europäischer Orchideen 37: 915-938.Vázquez Pardo, F.M. (2009). Revisión de la familia Orchidaceae en Extremadura (España). Folia Botanica Extremadurensis 3: 1-367.Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève. Dactylorhiza elata is a tuberous herbaceous perennial growing to 50 cm, and producing dense 20 cm spikes of purple flowers in spring. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Life cycle & reproduction2
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment5
Compounds documented for Dactylorhiza elata 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| beta-D-Glucopyranoside, 4-[[[(2R)-2-[(S)-carboxyhydroxymethyl]-2-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy)-4-methyl-1-oxopentyl]oxy]methyl]phenyl | present | LOTUS | |
| Soyacerebroside II | 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 Dactylorhiza elata 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 Dactylorhiza elata 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 809×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants +1
n 4010×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
polyploid 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 type5 828 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 institutions18 of 35 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| MAlocation not on record | 70 |
| València, ES | 68 |
| Paris, FR | 59 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 50 |
| BClocation not on record | 38 |
| Vitoria, ES | 24 |
| Granada, ES | 22 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 17 |
| Salamanca, ES | 17 |
| Barcelona, ES | 16 |
| Madrid, ES | 9 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 7 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 7 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 6 |
| Coimbra, PT | 4 |
| Wlocation not on record | 3 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Alicante, ES | 2 |
| Gijón, ES | 2 |
| Badajoz, ES | 2 |
| Jaén, ES | 2 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Córdoba, ES | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 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 Dactylorhiza elata 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.