Honckenya peploides
(L.) Ehrh. · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Honckenya peploides's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility62 749 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System5 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI41 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics59 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & karyotype
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & 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.
Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada),Integrated taxonomic information system (ITIS). (2009). Retrieved August/04, 2010 is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea purslane. The scientific name is often spelled "Honkenya", and is named after the German botanist Gerhard August Honckeny (or Honkeny). This plant has a circumboreal distribution. The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white pentamerous flowers with 10 stamens in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils.New Flora of the British Isles, Clive Stace, 2005, Cambridge University Press The fruit capsule opens in three valves.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction14
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry7
Other traits1
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 Honckenya peploides 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 Honckenya peploides 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 6819×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · brit-fl +8
2n 664×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · book-ipcn72 · CCDB · book-northern-plants +1
2n 482×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · brit-fl
2n 341×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 641×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew
2n 701×CCDB · Cave1963
n 342×CCDB · book-ipcn72 · CCDB · Cave1957
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
polyploid1×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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 type62 754 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 institutions66 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 |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 398 |
| LDlocation not on record | 266 |
| South Kensington, GB | 261 |
| Olocation not on record | 154 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 145 |
| Turku, FI | 133 |
| Brussel, BE | 130 |
| Trondheim, NO | 127 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 111 |
| Oulu, FI | 111 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 107 |
| Garðabær, IS | 105 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 104 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 99 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 82 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 75 |
| Tartu, EE | 60 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 50 |
| Bergen, NO | 43 |
| Tallinn, EE | 37 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 35 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 35 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 34 |
| 32 | |
| Philadelphia, US | 32 |
| Vancouver, CA | 26 |
| MAlocation not on record | 22 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 20 |
| Saint John, CA | 20 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 18 |
| Bronx, US | 17 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 16 |
| Montréal, CA | 16 |
| Anchorage, US | 14 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 10 |
| Porvoo, FI | 10 |
| Vitoria, ES | 9 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 8 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 8 |
| Uppsala, SE | 7 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 7 |
| Görlitz, DE | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 7 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 7 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 7 |
| Québec, CA | 6 |
| Tacoma, US | 6 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| Tilburg, NL | 6 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 5 |
| Kuopio, FI | 5 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 5 |
| Wlocation not on record | 5 |
| BClocation not on record | 4 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 4 |
| Dekalb, US | 4 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 4 |
| Portland, US | 4 |
| University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Herbarium Clocation not on record | 4 |
| B.A. Bennett Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Gijón, ES | 3 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 3 |
| Dresden, DE | 3 |
| Staten Island, US | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Toronto, CA | 3 |
| WINlocation not on record | 3 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 3 |
| Wellington, NZ | 3 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 2 |
| Washington, US | 2 |
| Göteborg, SE | 2 |
| València, ES | 2 |
| Madrid, ES | 2 |
| Churchill Northern Studies Centrelocation not on record | 2 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 2 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 2 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, San Juan Island National Historical Parklocation not on record | 2 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| University of Helsinkilocation not on record | 2 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Granada, ES | 2 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Provo, US | 2 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 2 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hudson, US | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Salamanca, ES | 1 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 1 |
| SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Richmond, US | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Davenport, US | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 1 |
| National Botanic Garden of Waleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Badajoz, ES | 1 |
| Alicante, ES | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| nbflocation not on record | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 1 |
| Bern, CH | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 1 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 1 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 1 |
| JBAlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Lethbridgelocation not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| UGentlocation 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 Honckenya peploides 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.