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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements3 literature sources20 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF539 records
DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences
01Narrative
Dioscorea quartiniana is a climbing tuber geophyte in the family Dioscoreaceae. It is native to Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This species occurs in forests, grasslands, and rocky areas.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Dioscorea quartiniana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes1
GenBank sequences2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★rbcL2
plant barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type539 records
Wild obs. + sensor56
Museum / vouchered407
Other76
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 136 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy71% within 1 km
≤100 m 13≤1 km 4≤10 km 2>10 km 5
24 georeferenced · 32 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor56
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.
Coordinate accuracy80% within 1 km
≤100 m 1≤1 km 7≤10 km 1>10 km 1
10 georeferenced · 397 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence407
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions11 of 32 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Kew, GB
65
Pretoria, ZA
57
MeiseBGlocation not on record
52
Saint Louis, US
38
South Kensington, GB
31
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
19
TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record
9
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropicallocation not on record
8
Durban, ZA
5
Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles (CRSN/Lwiro)location not on record
4
Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record
4
HNBlocation not on record
4
CJBGlocation not on record
3
Plocation not on record
3
IBANNlocation not on record
3
Bronx, US
2
Arusha, TZ
2
Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record
2
Frankfurt am Main
2
Stockholm, SE
1
Paris, FR
1
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record
1
Mount Makulu Central Research Stationlocation not on record
1
Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developement Rurallocation not on record
1
EAlocation not on record
1
CNF-UFHBlocation not on record
1
BAYLUlocation not on record
1
Olocation not on record
1
Wlocation not on record
1
Glocation not on record
1
LNBG$location not on record
1
Dresden, DE
1
32 institutions · 326 of 407 vouchered records shown · 81 without an institution code
