Frankenia pulverulenta
speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Frankenia pulverulenta's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 758 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics15 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Frankenia pulverulenta, the European seaheath, is a species of annual herb in the family Frankeniaceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 5 cm tall.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology19
Life cycle & reproduction15
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Physiology & chemistry1
Other traits6
Compounds documented for Frankenia pulverulenta across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds11 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S,3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5-hydroxy-4-oxo-7-sulfooxychromen-3-yl]oxy-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxane-2-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2S,3S,4R,5S,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-4-oxo-7-sulfooxychromen-3-yl]oxyoxane-2-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (2S,3S,4S,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4-oxo-7-sulfooxychromen-3-yl]oxyoxane-2-carboxylic acid | present | LOTUS | |
| (3S,4aR,5S,6R,8aS)-5-[2-(furan-3-yl)ethyl]-3-hydroxy-8a-(hydroxymethyl)-5,6-dimethyl-3,4,4a,6,7,8-hexahydronaphthalene-1-carboxylic acid | present | NPASS | |
| 5,7,4'-Trihydroxy-3,8-dimethoxyflavone | present | NPASS | |
| Calycopterin | present | NPASS | |
| Hautriwaic Acid | present | NPASS | |
| Isorhamnetin 7-O-sulfate | present | LOTUS | |
| Kaempferol 7-O-sulfate | present | LOTUS | |
| Quercetin 7-O-sulfate | 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 Frankenia pulverulenta 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 Frankenia pulverulenta 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 2011×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 +6
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 type5 758 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 institutions53 of 97 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| MAlocation not on record | 103 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 91 |
| LDlocation not on record | 87 |
| València, ES | 73 |
| Barcelona, ES | 47 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 37 |
| UIBlocation not on record | 35 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 27 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 26 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 26 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 22 |
| Vitoria, ES | 20 |
| Adelaide, AU | 20 |
| Alicante, ES | 20 |
| Salamanca, ES | 19 |
| BClocation not on record | 18 |
| Kensington, AU | 18 |
| Wlocation not on record | 16 |
| Granada, ES | 14 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 14 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 13 |
| Córdoba, ES | 12 |
| Córdoba, AR | 12 |
| Pamplona, ES | 11 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 10 |
| Berlin, DE | 10 |
| Madrid, ES | 9 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 9 |
| Jaén, ES | 9 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 9 |
| Badajoz, ES | 8 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 8 |
| Logan, US | 8 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Pamplona, ES | 7 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 7 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 6 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 6 |
| South Kensington, GB | 5 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 5 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistanlocation not on record | 5 |
| EEZA-CSIClocation not on record | 5 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 4 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Uppsala, SE | 4 |
| Canberra, AU | 4 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| Olocation not on record | 4 |
| Hobart, AU | 4 |
| PRClocation not on record | 4 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 4 |
| Bronx, US | 3 |
| Brisbane, AU | 3 |
| Beijing, CN | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 3 |
| Pullman, US | 3 |
| Provo, US | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Sharjah Seed Bank & Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| JBSlocation not on record | 3 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Rishon Le Zion, IL | 2 |
| Durban, ZA | 2 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 2 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| Porvoo, FI | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Henry Brockhouse Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| MSB-3054location not on record | 1 |
| Bergen, NO | 1 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Castelar, AR | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Laboratory of Palaeontologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 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 Frankenia pulverulenta 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.