Festuca rupicola
Heuff. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Festuca rupicola's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility20 456 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 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 & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Festuca rupicola, the furrowed fescue, is a species of cool-season grass in the family Poaceae. It is native the warm-temperate Old World; from the Atlas Mountains of Africa, then France and much of central and eastern Europe through to Central Asia and on to Manchuria, and as far south as Saudi Arabia and Iran. A tussock-former, it is considered a typical dominant species of ancient species-rich grasslands.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment10
Physiology & chemistry7
Other traits1
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 Festuca rupicola 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 Festuca rupicola 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 4226×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +5
2n 143×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
2n 281×CCDB · slov-fl
n 212×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
hexaploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Record type20 456 records
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 institutions19 of 59 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| BRNUlocation not on record | 486 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 121 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 109 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 77 |
| Salzburg, AT | 69 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 62 |
| HUN003location not on record | 45 |
| Wlocation not on record | 29 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 26 |
| PRClocation not on record | 22 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 19 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 17 |
| Dhaka, BD | 12 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 12 |
| Mlocation not on record | 10 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 10 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 9 |
| Dresden, DE | 9 |
| Görlitz, DE | 8 |
| Berlin, DE | 7 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 5 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 5 |
| LDlocation not on record | 5 |
| Bern, CH | 4 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Salzburglocation not on record | 4 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 3 |
| CZE082location not on record | 3 |
| The Tula Region State Institution of Culture "Tula Museum Association"location not on record | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 2 |
| The State Museum-Preserve "The Kulikovo pole"location not on record | 2 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 2 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 2 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| Bratislava, SK | 2 |
| Samara National Research Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Sanda, JP | 1 |
| München, DE | 1 |
| H-Hohlalocation not on record | 1 |
| H-Dueringlocation not on record | 1 |
| sonstHerblocation not on record | 1 |
| H-Schuhwlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 1 |
| GBR016location not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uberlândia, BR | 1 |
| Ural Federal University "B. N. Yeltsin"location 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 Festuca rupicola 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.