Koenigia islandica
speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Koenigia islandica's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 408 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI23 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics45 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & 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.
Koenigia islandica is a species of annual flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae and is the type species of the genus Koenigia. It is a very small plant and is found growing on wet gravel and scree in arctic tundra and alpine meadows.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment10
Physiology & chemistry4
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 Koenigia islandica 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 Koenigia islandica 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 2819×CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · book-ipcn65 · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +5
2n 141×CCDB · book-indian_vol1
n 141×CCDB · Cave1958
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
polyploid1×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
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 type6 408 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions56 of 106 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Olocation not on record | 200 |
| Trondheim, NO | 178 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 164 |
| LDlocation not on record | 130 |
| Garðabær, IS | 101 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 92 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 76 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 68 |
| Beijing, CN | 62 |
| Québec, CA | 58 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 40 |
| Helsinki, FI | 38 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 34 |
| Xining, CN | 33 |
| Victoria, CA | 32 |
| Bergen, NO | 29 |
| 27 | |
| Turku, FI | 27 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 25 |
| Yangling, CN | 20 |
| Oulu, FI | 15 |
| Kunming, CN | 15 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 15 |
| Kuopio, FI | 14 |
| Cambridge, US | 13 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 10 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 9 |
| Chicago, US | 9 |
| Vancouver, CA | 9 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 9 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 8 |
| Missoula, US | 7 |
| Uppsala, SE | 7 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Taipei, TW | 7 |
| St. Paul, US | 6 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 6 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Bronx, US | 5 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 5 |
| Berlin, DE | 5 |
| Dresden, DE | 5 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 4 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Nanjing, CN | 4 |
| Denver, US | 4 |
| Anchorage, US | 4 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Beijing Normal Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 4 |
| Kew, GB | 3 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 3 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 3 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 2 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundlandlocation not on record | 2 |
| LIVlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bozeman, US | 2 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 2 |
| Montréal, CA | 2 |
| Logan, US | 2 |
| Research Collection of Siegrun Ertllocation not on record | 2 |
| Wellington, NZ | 2 |
| NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| WINlocation not on record | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| Seoul, KR | 1 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Urumqi, CN | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| BM|NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| Corvallis, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Awka, NG | 1 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| GINRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Kathmandu, NP | 1 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| nbflocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Koenigia islandica 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.