BLM Desert Lily Preserve near Desert Center, California Hesperocallis is a genus of flowering plants that includes a single species, Hesperocallis undulata, known as the desert lily or ajo lily. It is found in the desert areas of southwestern North America, in Northwestern Mexico, California, and Arizona. The plant grows in Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert habitats.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Hesperocallis undulata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences7
eDNA detections5
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK2★rbcL4★rbcLa★ITS1
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualHesperocallis undulata 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.
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
DNA clock origin11.8 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type7 080 records
Wild obs. + sensor6 516
Museum / vouchered564
Origin
Native15
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO5 120 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 accuracy90% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 498≤1 km 380≤10 km 163>10 km 164
3 205 georeferenced · 3 311 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor6 516
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 accuracy43% within 1 km
≤100 m 39≤1 km 75≤10 km 124>10 km 29
267 georeferenced · 297 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence564
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 institutions40 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Claremont, US
105
San Diego, US
93
Riverside, US
59
Phoenix, US
45
ASUlocation not on record
38
Flagstaff, US
18
Los Angeles, US
17
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
16
US
14
Bronx, US
9
Arcata, US
9
Philadelphia, US
8
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
7
Davis, US
7
Santa Barbara, US
6
San Luis Obispo, US
6
Arizona Western Collegelocation not on record
5
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
5
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
4
Irvine, US
4
Austin, US
3
Mexico City, MX
3
Long Beach, US
3
Denver, US
3
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
3
Pullman, US
3
Hermosillo, MX
3
San Bernardino, US
2
Northridge, US
2
Provo, US
2
EL PASO, US
2
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
2
Pocatello, US
2
Henderson, US
2
CASlocation not on record
2
San Jose, US
2
Angwin, US
2
Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record
2
Dekalb, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Tampa, US
1
Ensenada, MX
1
Durango, US
1
Boise, US
1
Saint Louis, US
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Moscow, US
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record
1
Ann Arbor, US
1
Mississippi State, US
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Chicago, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Calabar, NG
1
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
1
56 institutions · 536 of 564 vouchered records shown · 27 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA5 detections
Where the DNA of Hesperocallis undulata 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 found5
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 5 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Sonoran Desert Scrub with Fouquieria splende…
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.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median15.3 °C 13.0–17.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter23.1 °C
Max temp (day)21.6 °C 19.1–24.2
Min temp (night)9.90 °C 8.60–11.2
Precipitation51.7 mm/mo 29.4–74.1
Air humidity51.8 % 47.4–56.2
Moisture balance-77.9 mm/mo -110–-46.3
Vapour deficit928 Pa 772–1,084
Wind speed4.60 m/s 3.60–5.60
Cloud cover34.7 % 33.2–36.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 080 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 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↗