Kniphofia uvaria is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae, also known as tritomea, torch lily, or red hot poker, due to the shape and color of its inflorescence. The leaves are reminiscent of a lily, and the flowerhead can reach up to 1.5 m in height. There are many varieties of torch lily, and they bloom at different times during the growing season. The flowers are red, orange, and yellow. A clump on the shore of Lake Jindabyne in Australia, where it has become an environmental weed A young inflorescence
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Kniphofia uvaria across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Depsides1
Documented compounds1 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
Atranorin
present
NPASS
05DNA & barcoding8 specimens
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 Kniphofia uvaria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections6
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★rbcL2★trnL-F★ITS6★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualKniphofia uvaria 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
Genome size10 503 720 000 bp
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
THIS GENOME Kniphofia uvaria10.5 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Vijayavalli, B. & P. M. Mathew. 1990. Cytotax. Liliaceae Allied Fam. Continental Publishers, Kerala, India.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Pandita, T. K. 1979. Cytological investigations of some monocots of Kashmir. Ph.D. Thesis, Chandigarh 1979.
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Sen 1976
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Mehra & Pandita 1978
CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — SEN, S. 1973. Structural hybridity intra-and interspecific level in Liliales. Folia Biol. (Cracow) 21: 83-197.
CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — SEN, S. 1973. Polysomaty and its significance in Liliales. Cytologia 38: 737-751.
CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — KOUL, A.K., & R.N. GOHIL. 1973. Cytotaxonomical conspectus of the flora of Kashmir (1) Chromosome numbers of some common plants. Phyton (Horn) 15: 57-66.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy72% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 637≤1 km 439≤10 km 776>10 km 48
2 900 georeferenced · 377 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 277
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 accuracy79% within 1 km
≤100 m 12≤1 km 37≤10 km 10>10 km 3
62 georeferenced · 346 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence408
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 1
1 georeferenced
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions31 of 51 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Pretoria, ZA
156
Cape Town, ZA
122
Adelaide, AU
10
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
8
Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record
6
Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation not on record
6
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
6
Santa Barbara, US
5
Riverside, US
5
Hobart, AU
5
Corvallis, US
4
Mount Annan, AU
4
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record
3
Saint Louis, US
3
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
3
Canberra, AU
3
GHPG$location not on record
3
Wellington, NZ
3
Christchurch, NZ
2
Claremont, US
2
WTUlocation not on record
2
Zürich, CH
2
Durban, ZA
2
Rotorua, NZ
2
Córdoba, AR
2
Arcata, US
2
Guatemala City, GT
1
LDlocation not on record
1
South African National Biodiversity Institutelocation not on record
1
Portland, US
1
Criciúma, BR
1
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record
1
La Paz, BO
1
Armidale, AU
1
MSB-3054location not on record
1
Parkville, AU
1
San Diego, US
1
Ann Arbor, US
1
MAlocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
Oskarshamn, SE
1
Universidad del Quindío (UniQuindío)location not on record
1
UFPRlocation not on record
1
San Francisco, US
1
Civico Museo di Scienze naturali Giuseppe Orlandilocation not on record
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Bronx, US
1
Northridge, US
1
51 institutions · 396 of 408 vouchered records shown · 10 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA6 detections
Where the DNA of Kniphofia uvaria 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 found6
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 6 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
garden
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 median14.8 °C 14.8–14.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter9.20 °C
Max temp (day)15.8 °C
Min temp (night)13.9 °C
Precipitation74.7 mm/mo
Air humidity66.5 %
Moisture balance-39.1 mm/mo
Vapour deficit562 Pa
Wind speed4.00 m/s
Cloud cover49.1 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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 Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 686 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype