Indigofera linifolia
(L.f.) Retz. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Indigofera linifolia's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 352 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Indigofera linifolia, the narrowleaf indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is very widely distributed from Sudan eastwards to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia, and it has been introduced to Réunion and New Caledonia. Livestock can consume it as fodder, and in times of famine humans can grind and bake the seeds into a bread. It grows on dry slopes, grasslands, and riversides.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology14
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Physiology & chemistry2
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 Indigofera linifolia 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 Indigofera linifolia 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.
2n 1615×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +3
n 88×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 +1
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Record type4 352 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 institutions38 of 63 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Brisbane, AU | 412 |
| Palmerston, AU | 296 |
| Canberra, AU | 170 |
| QAUlocation not on record | 165 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 163 |
| Kensington, AU | 162 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 107 |
| Adelaide, AU | 80 |
| Kew, GB | 61 |
| Smithfield, AU | 33 |
| Taipei, TW | 21 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 17 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 17 |
| Beijing, CN | 12 |
| Kunming, CN | 11 |
| Armidale, AU | 9 |
| Chengdu, CN | 9 |
| James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record | 8 |
| BGPAlocation not on record | 7 |
| EMTCMlocation not on record | 7 |
| Xiamen, CN | 7 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 6 |
| Dehra Dun, IN | 5 |
| Hobart, AU | 5 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 5 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| Seoul, KR | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Chengdu, CN | 3 |
| LDlocation not on record | 3 |
| Chengdu, CN | 3 |
| CASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Baroda, IN | 3 |
| Taipei, TW | 3 |
| Claremont, US | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Strecker Museum, Baylor Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| *unvoucheredlocation not on record | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Lubbock, US | 1 |
| NGCPR01745location not on record | 1 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| NGCPR01605location not on record | 1 |
| GAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| STUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| SNJB's KKHA Arts, SMGL Commerce & SPHJ Science College Chandwad, Dist. Nashik, Maharashtra, India. 423101.location not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Qarshi Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, 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 Indigofera linifolia 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.