Galanthus elwesii
Hook.f. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Galanthus elwesii's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 122 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
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↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & 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.
Galanthus elwesii, JD Hooker, Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1875 Galanthus elwesii, Elwes's snowdrop or greater snowdrop, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Caucasus. This herbaceous perennial plant grows to 20-25 cm high. It grows from a globose bulb, 2–3 cm in diameter. It produces two leaves which are obtuse, linear, and blue-green in colour. The flowers are globose, white, pendulous, 2–3 cm long, and solitary at the tip of a solid, pointed scape. The outer floral tepals are oblanceolate, with shorter inner tepals that are emarginate (notched at the apex), tapering towards their base with green patches apically and basally (see illustrations). The fruit forms a dehiscent capsule with three valves. Overall Galanthus elwesii is a more robust plant than G. nivalis.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology3
Life cycle & reproduction11
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment7
Physiology & chemistry1
Compounds documented for Galanthus elwesii across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds43 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Narwedine | present | LOTUS | |
| (-)-Galantamine | present | LOTUS | |
| (1'R,3R,3'S,4'R,5'R,7'R)-5'-hydroxy-4',5,6-trimethoxy-8'-methylspiro[2-benzofuran-3,6'-2-oxa-8-azatricyclo[5.3.0.01,3]decane]-1-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,12R,14R)-9-methoxy-11-oxa-3-azatetracyclo[8.6.1.01,12.06,17]heptadeca-6(17),7,9-trien-14-ol | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,14R,15R,16R)-4,5,14-trimethoxy-9-azatetracyclo[7.6.1.02,7.012,16]hexadeca-2,4,6,12-tetraen-15-ol | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,2S,6R,8S,9S,10R)-1,15-dihydroxy-9,16-dimethoxy-3-methyl-7,11-dioxa-3-azapentacyclo[8.8.0.02,6.06,8.013,18]octadeca-13,15,17-trien-12-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R,2S,6R,8S,9S,10R)-1-hydroxy-9,15,16-trimethoxy-3-methyl-7,11-dioxa-3-azapentacyclo[8.8.0.02,6.06,8.013,18]octadeca-13,15,17-trien-12-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,12R,14S,15R,16S,17S)-4,5,15-trimethoxy-13-oxa-9-azapentacyclo[7.7.1.02,7.012,14.012,17]heptadeca-2,4,6-trien-16-ol | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,12S,14R)-14-hydroxy-9-methoxy-11-oxa-4-azatetracyclo[8.6.1.01,12.06,17]heptadeca-6(17),7,9,15-tetraene-4-carbaldehyde | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,13R,15R)-15-methoxy-5,7-dioxa-12-azapentacyclo[10.5.2.01,13.02,10.04,8]nonadeca-2,4(8),9,16-tetraene | 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 Galanthus elwesii 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 Galanthus elwesii 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 2417×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +4
2n 483×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · kew
2n 722×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · kew
diploid 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 type8 122 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 institutions19 of 38 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 61 |
| LDlocation not on record | 52 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 14 |
| Mlocation not on record | 9 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 7 |
| Wlocation not on record | 7 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 5 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 5 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 4 |
| Vancouver, CA | 3 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Saint Louis, US | 3 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 3 |
| Olocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 3 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Western Carolina Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fulda, DE | 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 Galanthus elwesii 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.