Danthonia decumbens
(L.) DC. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Danthonia decumbens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility251 799 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI28 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics45 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & 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.
Danthonia decumbens (formerly Sieglingia decumbens) is a species of grass commonly known as the heath grass, heath-grass,Stace, Clive, 1997. New Flora of the British Isles. Second edition. p 899. or staggers grass It is a tussock grass native to Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and North Africa. It may also be native to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology21
Life cycle & reproduction14
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment12
Physiology & chemistry8
Other traits2
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 Danthonia decumbens 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 Danthonia decumbens 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 3646×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl +17
2n 1243×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · Oberlander2016
2n 242×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · Oberlander2016
2n 181×CCDB · book-northern-plants
n 91×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
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 type251 799 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 institutions77 of 161 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 3 212 |
| Olocation not on record | 555 |
| Helsinki, FI | 443 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 435 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 346 |
| LDlocation not on record | 289 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 251 |
| Trondheim, NO | 221 |
| Bergen, NO | 164 |
| Salzburg, AT | 158 |
| Turku, FI | 150 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 134 |
| Tartu, EE | 109 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 94 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 84 |
| Bern, CH | 79 |
| Brussel, BE | 78 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 76 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 66 |
| Oulu, FI | 52 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 49 |
| Auckland, NZ | 48 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 47 |
| South Kensington, GB | 47 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 45 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 44 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 39 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 39 |
| Görlitz, DE | 37 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 36 |
| MAlocation not on record | 35 |
| Kuopio, FI | 35 |
| Vitoria, ES | 29 |
| Barcelona, ES | 28 |
| BClocation not on record | 27 |
| València, ES | 26 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 26 |
| Hobart, AU | 25 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 25 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 24 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 23 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 21 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 20 |
| Dresden, DE | 19 |
| Badajoz, ES | 18 |
| Wlocation not on record | 17 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 17 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 16 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 15 |
| Salamanca, ES | 14 |
| Tallinn, EE | 14 |
| Mlocation not on record | 14 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 13 |
| Berlin, DE | 13 |
| Porvoo, FI | 11 |
| Zürich, CH | 11 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 11 |
| nbflocation not on record | 11 |
| Zürich, CH | 11 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 10 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 10 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 9 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 9 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Fulda, DE | 8 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 8 |
| Corvallis, US | 8 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 8 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 8 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 7 |
| Madrid, ES | 7 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 6 |
| Philadelphia, US | 6 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 6 |
| Tilburg, NL | 6 |
| Stockholm, SE | 6 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 6 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Canberra, AU | 5 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 5 |
| Glarus, CH | 5 |
| Adelaide, AU | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 5 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 5 |
| Pamplona, ES | 5 |
| Uppsala, SE | 4 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Pamplona, ES | 4 |
| University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Herbarium Clocation not on record | 4 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 4 |
| Garðabær, IS | 4 |
| Alicante, ES | 3 |
| Kew, GB | 3 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 3 |
| Vancouver, CA | 3 |
| Coimbra, PT | 3 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 3 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 3 |
| KMCClocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| PRClocation not on record | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| Lausanne, CH | 2 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 2 |
| Forssa, FI | 2 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 2 |
| Arcata, US | 2 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 2 |
| Bloomington, US | 2 |
| Sion, CH | 2 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 2 |
| Brisbane, AU | 2 |
| Bourges, FR | 2 |
| Namur, BE | 2 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 2 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| ER Hellerlocation not on record | 2 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| SWlocation not on record | 2 |
| H-Schuhwlocation not on record | 2 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| LUXEMBOURG, LU | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Granada, ES | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Indiana State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Hamburglocation not on record | 1 |
| Herb. BBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 1 |
| CZE082location not on record | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 1 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation 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 Danthonia decumbens 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.