Dactylorhiza sambucina
(L.) Soó · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Dactylorhiza sambucina's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility54 802 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI29 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics15 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & 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.
Dactylorhiza sambucina, the elder-flowered orchid, is an herbaceous plant belonging to the family Orchidaceae. It is quite common and widespread throughout much of Europe from Portugal east to Finland and Ukraine. The flowers appear in spring and summer, in various colors from yellow to purple.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology7
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry3
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 Dactylorhiza sambucina 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 sambucina 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 407×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · mediterranean +3
2n 425×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +2
2n 601×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
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 type54 802 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 institutions41 of 89 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 367 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 304 |
| LDlocation not on record | 297 |
| Paris, FR | 274 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 135 |
| Turku, FI | 122 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 119 |
| Zürich, CH | 107 |
| Olocation not on record | 95 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 84 |
| Zürich, CH | 82 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 80 |
| Dresden, DE | 70 |
| Oulu, FI | 40 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 31 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 29 |
| Salzburg, AT | 27 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 27 |
| Bern, CH | 27 |
| KFGBlocation not on record | 23 |
| MAlocation not on record | 20 |
| BClocation not on record | 20 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 19 |
| València, ES | 18 |
| Chicago, US | 18 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 17 |
| Barcelona, ES | 15 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 14 |
| Görlitz, DE | 13 |
| Berlin, DE | 11 |
| Porvoo, FI | 10 |
| Vitoria, ES | 10 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 10 |
| Trondheim, NO | 9 |
| Kostrzyca Forest Gene Banklocation not on record | 8 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 8 |
| Bergen, NO | 7 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 6 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 6 |
| Salamanca, ES | 5 |
| Kuopio, FI | 5 |
| Pamplona, ES | 4 |
| Madison, US | 4 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 4 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 3 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 3 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 3 |
| Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 3 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Sion, CH | 2 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| Madrid, ES | 2 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 1 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| UBT-Kaullocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 1 |
| H-Diewaldlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Alicante, ES | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 1 |
| Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function at Friedrich Schiller University Jenalocation not on record | 1 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 1 |
| Henry Brockhouse Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| NBSIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 1 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 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 sambucina 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.