Eulophia pulchra

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Orchidaceae/Eulophia

At a glance

Occurrence records67

Data sources8

Biological traits15

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections2

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Eulophia pulchra's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility67 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources15 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF67 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 32

01Narrative

Eulophia pulchra, commonly known as the gonzo orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is native to areas from Tanzania and Mozambique to the Western Pacific Ocean. It is a terrestrial orchid with crowded, above-ground pseudobulbs, two or three leaves and pale yellowish green flowers with dull purple or red markings. It grows in plant litter in rainforests.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Size & morphology2

Plant height0.65 m

Plant height max0.75 m

Life cycle & reproduction4

Dispersal typewind

Life formpseudobulbous geophyte

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formcryptophyte

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment8

Aquaticterrestrial

Climateseasonally dry tropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Habitat GIFTrain forest

Succulenceno

Woodinessnon-woody

05DNA & barcoding10 sequences

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 Eulophia pulchra has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

Marker genes3

GenBank sequences10

eDNA detections2

Countries3

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

ITSKT768414.1 ↗259 bp

ACGT

TCNTTGTCGAGNCCGAANTATNCNCCGAGCGAATCGGANAACCCGTGAAACGAACGACGTGCGGCGGCCGCCGCGGAACGGCCGTCCGAG …

Oeceoclades pulchra voucher BGM X/434 (M) internal transcribed spacer 1 and 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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.

★matK3★rbcL2★ITS5

plant barcodefungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Eulophia pulchra 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.

Chromosomes2n = 32 n = 16

Ploidydiploid inferred

Chromosome records32–322n range32median32mode5records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 325×CCDB · book-ipcn65 · CCDB · book-indian_vol2 · CCDB · eflora +1

CCDB · book-ipcn65 — Pancho 1965a

CCDB · book-indian_vol2 — Pancho, J.V. 1965a

CCDB · eflora

CCDB · book-fedorov — Pancho (C. n. III.

n 171×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Radhamoni, G., P. Vatsala & C. A. Ninan. 1985. Chromosome numbers in some South Indian orchids. New Bot. 12: 77–82.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=0.999 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type67 records

Wild obs. + sensor39

Museum / vouchered27

Other1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO204 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 accuracy30% within 1 km

≤100 m 6≤1 km 5≤10 km 8>10 km 18

37 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor39

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 accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 27 records without

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence27

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 institutions6 of 10 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Saint Louis, US	4
BRLUlocation not on record	3
Uppsala, SE	3
Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record	3
Plocation not on record	2
Kew, GB	2
Christchurch, NZ	2
Paris, FR	1
TNMlocation not on record	1
South Kensington, GB	1

10 institutions · 22 of 27 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Eulophia pulchra 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

Detections DNA found2

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

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.

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