Herminium monorchis
(L.) R.Br. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Herminium monorchis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 639 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI36 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics19 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Herminium monorchis, the musk orchid, is a commonly occurring species of orchid. It is widespread across much of Europe and northern Asia from France to Japan, including China, Siberia, Mongolia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, etc.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesAltervista Flora Italiana, Orchide ad un bulbo, Musk Orchid, Herminium monorchis (L.) R. Br.Flora of China v 25 p 122, 角盘兰 jiao pan lan, Herminium monorchis (Linnaeus) R. Brown in W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew., ed. 2. 5: 191. 1813. It has a localised distribution in Britain; sites where it is found include Ham Hill in Wiltshire and Noar Hill in Hampshire.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits2
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 Herminium monorchis 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 Herminium monorchis 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 4015×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn72 +6
2n 382×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-indian_vol2
n 203×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn72 · CCDB · Cave1963
n 191×CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
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 type24 639 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 institutions63 of 131 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| LDlocation not on record | 294 |
| Beijing, CN | 283 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 266 |
| Uppsala, SE | 238 |
| South Kensington, GB | 217 |
| Helsinki, FI | 184 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 179 |
| Brussel, BE | 126 |
| Tartu, EE | 123 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 122 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 105 |
| Salzburg, AT | 79 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 78 |
| Olocation not on record | 78 |
| Zürich, CH | 67 |
| Philadelphia, US | 64 |
| Bern, CH | 63 |
| Xining, CN | 57 |
| Yangling, CN | 50 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 49 |
| Kunming, CN | 48 |
| Zürich, CH | 44 |
| Tallinn, EE | 41 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 39 |
| Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record | 37 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 34 |
| Turku, FI | 29 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 28 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 27 |
| Kuopio, FI | 25 |
| KFGBlocation not on record | 24 |
| Dresden, DE | 22 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 22 |
| Trondheim, NO | 20 |
| SXTCMlocation not on record | 19 |
| Chengdu, CN | 19 |
| Mlocation not on record | 18 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 18 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 15 |
| Saint Louis, US | 14 |
| Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record | 14 |
| Oulu, FI | 14 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 13 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 13 |
| Bergen, NO | 13 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 11 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Chengdu, CN | 10 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 10 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 10 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 9 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 9 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 8 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 8 |
| Forest Survey and Design Institute, Forestry Administrative Bureau of Daxinganlinglocation not on record | 8 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 8 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 7 |
| Cambridge, US | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 6 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 6 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Nanjing, CN | 6 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 5 |
| Glarus, CH | 5 |
| Shanxi Institute of Biologylocation not on record | 4 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Göteborg, SE | 4 |
| Porvoo, FI | 4 |
| Fort Worth, US | 4 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 4 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 4 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 4 |
| Xinxiang, CN | 4 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 3 |
| Seoul, KR | 3 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Kostrzyca Forest Gene Banklocation not on record | 3 |
| Wlocation not on record | 3 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 3 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 3 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 3 |
| Chicago, US | 3 |
| Tampa, US | 3 |
| Vancouver, CA | 2 |
| Podgorica, ME | 2 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 2 |
| Xian, CN | 2 |
| BClocation not on record | 2 |
| Jiangxi College of Educationlocation not on record | 2 |
| Plocation not on record | 2 |
| Zhengzhou, CN | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| ER Hellerlocation not on record | 2 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bourges, FR | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 2 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 2 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| UBT-Kaullocation not on record | 1 |
| SNSNMClocation not on record | 1 |
| Institute of Botany, Ilia State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bando, JP | 1 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 1 |
| Dublin, IE | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Department of Plant Resources, National Herbarium and Plant Laboratorieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Hebei Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| Beijing Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Durham, US | 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 Herminium monorchis 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.