Himantoglossum hircinum
(L.) Spreng. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Himantoglossum hircinum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility173 618 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics9 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
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.
Himantoglossum hircinum, the lizard orchid, is a species of orchid in the genus Himantoglossum found in Europe and North Africa.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology7
Life cycle & reproduction13
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry3
Other traits2
Compounds documented for Himantoglossum hircinum across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds56 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ((2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-6-(2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy)-3,5-dihydroxy-4-((2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl)oxyoxan-2-yl)methyl (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| (+)-Ursolic Acid | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,4aR,7aR)-7-(hydroxymethyl)-1-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-1,4a,5,7a-tetrahydrocyclopenta[c]pyran-4-carboxylic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,2R,4aS,6aR,6aS,6bR,8aR,10S,12aR,14bR)-10-hydroxy-1,2,6a,6b,9,9,12a-heptamethyl-2,3,4,5,6,6a,7,8,8a,10,11,12,13,14b-tetradecahydro-1H-picene-4a-carboxylic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(E)-3-[(2S,3R)-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-(hydroxymethyl)-7-methoxy-2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-5-yl]prop-2-enoxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid | present | NPASS | |
| [(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-2-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy]-3,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-4-yl] (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-6-[(2R)-2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-2-hydroxyethoxy]-5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-3-yl] (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-6-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy]-5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4-[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-3-yl] (E)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-6-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy]-5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-3-yl] (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS |
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 Himantoglossum hircinum 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 Himantoglossum hircinum 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 3632×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +3
2n 243×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 184×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · Cave1963 · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 type173 618 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 institutions28 of 70 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Paris, FR | 187 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 105 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 75 |
| South Kensington, GB | 59 |
| Bern, CH | 57 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 46 |
| Lausanne, CH | 37 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 25 |
| MAlocation not on record | 23 |
| LDlocation not on record | 16 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 15 |
| BClocation not on record | 14 |
| Dresden, DE | 14 |
| Zürich, CH | 12 |
| Vitoria, ES | 11 |
| Salamanca, ES | 10 |
| Granada, ES | 10 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 10 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 10 |
| Brussel, BE | 9 |
| València, ES | 9 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 9 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 9 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 7 |
| Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function at Friedrich Schiller University Jenalocation not on record | 6 |
| Bourges, FR | 5 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 4 |
| Córdoba, ES | 4 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 4 |
| Madison, US | 3 |
| Alicante, ES | 3 |
| Barcelona, ES | 3 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 3 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 3 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 2 |
| Cambridge University Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Jaén, ES | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dublin, IE | 2 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| H-Dunkellocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 1 |
| Mlocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Oulu, FI | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wardown House, Museum & Gallerylocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tolson Memorial Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 1 |
| Letchworth Museum and Art Gallerylocation not on record | 1 |
| Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Oxfordlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Readinglocation not on record | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| NBSIlocation 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 Himantoglossum hircinum 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.