Drimia maritima
(L.) Stearn · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Drimia maritima's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation14 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 617 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). This species is known by several common names, including squill, sea squill, sea onion, and maritime squill.Drimia maritima (maritime squill). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It may also be called red squill, particularly a form which produces red-tinged flowers instead of white. It is native to southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment10
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Drimia maritima across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds222 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCILLAREN-A | 6,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SCILLIGLAUCOSIDE | 700 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| GLUCOSCILLAREN-A | 500 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| PROSCILLARIDIN-A | 500 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SCILLICYANOSIDE | 500 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SCILLIPHAEOSIDE | 400 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SCILLICOELOSIDE | 250 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SCILLAZUROSIDE | 100 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
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 Drimia maritima 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 Drimia maritima 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 4033×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +6
2n 2032×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +1
2n 6014×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +5
2n 309×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 643×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
2n 521×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 304×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
n 201×CCDB · Cave1962
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 type4 617 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 institutions6 of 14 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Badajoz, ES | 11 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 3 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| MKD001location not on record | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation 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 Drimia maritima 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.