Delairea odorata
Lem. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Delairea odorata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 048 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 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.
Delairea is a plant genus within the family Asteraceae that is native to South Africa. Classified within the tribe Senecioneae, it contains only one species, Delairea odorata, which was previously included in the genus Senecio as Senecio mikanioides. It is known as Cape ivy in some parts of the world (US) and German ivy in others (Britain, Ireland). Its multi-lobed leaves somewhat resemble those of the unrelated English ivy. Originally used as an ornamental plant on trellises and as groundcover, it is now rarely cultivated because of its invasiveness, in addition to being a weed.Delairea odorata PlantFileonline
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology20
Life cycle & reproduction19
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits2
Compounds documented for Delairea odorata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds25 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1S,3aR,5aR,5bR,7aR,11aR,11bR,13aR,13bR)-3a,5a,5b,8,8,11a-hexamethyl-1-prop-1-en-2-yl-2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,10,11,11b,12,13,13a,13b-tetradecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]chrysen-9-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (7-hydroxy-2,3,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-pyrrolizin-1-yl)methyl 2-methylbut-2-enoate | present | LOTUS | |
| 1-Isopropyl-4-methylenebicyclo(3.1.0)hex-2-ene | present | LOTUS | |
| 2''-(p-hydroxyl cinnamoyl)-6''-jacaranone-alpha-D-glucopyranoside | present | LOTUS | |
| 2''-caffeoyl-6''-jacaranone-beta-D-glucopyranoside | present | LOTUS | |
| 2-[(1S,6R)-1,6-dihydroxy-4-oxocyclohex-2-en-1-yl]acetic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| 5,7-dihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-[(2S,3R,4R,5R,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 6-(beta-D-Glucopyranosyloxy)-1,3,7-trihydroxy-9H-xanthen-9-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 7-Angeloylplatynecine | present | LOTUS | |
| [(1S,7R,8R)-7-[(Z)-2-methylbut-2-enoyl]oxy-2,3,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-pyrrolizin-1-yl]methyl (E)-2-(hydroxymethyl)but-2-enoate | 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 Delairea odorata 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 Delairea odorata 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 202×CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · eflora
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 type11 048 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 institutions49 of 72 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Pretoria, ZA | 58 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 58 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 53 |
| Auckland, NZ | 48 |
| Adelaide, AU | 46 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 39 |
| Canberra, AU | 36 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 32 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 29 |
| Hobart, AU | 24 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 21 |
| Riverside, US | 21 |
| San Diego, US | 19 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 14 |
| Wellington, NZ | 13 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 11 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 9 |
| Davis, US | 9 |
| Armidale, AU | 8 |
| Durban, ZA | 8 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 8 |
| Claremont, US | 7 |
| CASlocation not on record | 7 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 7 |
| Brisbane, AU | 7 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 6 |
| US | 6 |
| Arcata, US | 6 |
| Wollongong, AU | 4 |
| Batemans Bay, AU | 4 |
| San Jose, US | 4 |
| Kensington, AU | 3 |
| Honolulu, US | 3 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 3 |
| Irvine, US | 3 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 3 |
| Los Angeles, US | 3 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 3 |
| Catalina Island Conservancylocation not on record | 2 |
| Durango, MX | 2 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 2 |
| La Trobe Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| Northridge, US | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| Salzburg, AT | 2 |
| HUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Emporia, US | 1 |
| Parkville, AU | 1 |
| GHPG$location not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| València, ES | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis (JBBJCM)location not on record | 1 |
| Viña del Mar, CL | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| Kathmandu, NP | 1 |
| Kuopio, FI | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record | 1 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 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 Delairea odorata 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.