Krascheninnikovia ceratoides
(L.) Gueldenst. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Krascheninnikovia ceratoides's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 592 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics19 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides, the Pamirian winterfat, is a plant species native to Central Europe and Southern Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia.Flora of Pakistan V 204. It has been reported from Russia, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Romania.Flora of Romania, Endangered Species of TransylvaniaMeyer, Carl Anton (Andreevič) von. 1833. Flora Altaica 4: 239–240.Flora Silvestre del Mediterráneo, Krascheninnikovia ceratoidesCzech BotanyVirtual Guide to the Flora of MongoliaGobierno de Aragón, Catálogo de Especies Amaenazadas de Aragón, Krascheninnikovia ceratoidesWalter Wucherer, Liliya A. Dimeyeva. 2012. Aralkum - a Man-Made Desert: The Desiccated Floor of the Aral Sea (Central Asia). Springer Verlag. Krascheninnikovia ceratoides is a shrub up to 100 cm tall, appearing whitish because of a thick layer of finely branched hairs. Leaves are highly variable in shape, up to 25 mm long. Flowers are tiny, covered with long silky hairs, borne in axillary clusters and a terminal raceme; staminate (male, pollen-producing) and pistillate (female, seed-producing) organs are in different flowers on the same plant. Fruit is egg-shaped, about 3 mm long, with 4 angles and 2 horns.Gueldenstaedt, Anton Johann von. 1772. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae 16: 548, 555.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology7
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry8
Other traits3
Compounds documented for Krascheninnikovia ceratoides across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds15 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Syringaresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (2R,3S)-2,3-Dihydro-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-5-((1E)-3-hydroxy-1-propen-1-yl)-7-methoxy-3-benzofuranmethanol | present | LOTUS | |
| (4aS,8aR)-4-(hydroxymethyl)-3,8,8-trimethyl-4a,5,6,8a-tetrahydro-1H-naphthalene-2,7-dione | present | LOTUS | |
| 3-(4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxyphenyl)Prop-2-Enoic Acid | present | LOTUS | |
| 4-[(3S,3aS,4S,6R,6aR)-4-(hydroxymethyl)-6-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydrofuro[3,4-c]furan-3-yl]benzene-1,2-diol | present | LOTUS | |
| 5,7-dihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-[(2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one | present | LOTUS | |
| Afzelin | present | LOTUS | |
| Feruloyl isoquercitrin 4'-glucoside | present | LOTUS | |
| Isorhamnetin | present | LOTUS | |
| Kaempferol | present | LOTUS |
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 Krascheninnikovia ceratoides 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 Krascheninnikovia ceratoides 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 3611×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-indian_vol1 · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants +2
2n 185×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · iapt
2n 542×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
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 type2 592 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 institutions28 of 57 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 251 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 151 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 30 |
| MAlocation not on record | 20 |
| València, ES | 18 |
| Wlocation not on record | 18 |
| BClocation not on record | 12 |
| Granada, ES | 10 |
| Beijing, CN | 8 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 8 |
| Berlin, DE | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 7 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 6 |
| Vitoria, ES | 5 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 5 |
| CASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 4 |
| Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Salzburg, AT | 4 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 4 |
| Salamanca, ES | 3 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Barcelona, ES | 3 |
| Denver, US | 3 |
| Samara National Research Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Madrid, ES | 2 |
| Shanxi Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 2 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 2 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 2 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 2 |
| Beijing Normal Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| CONCOLlocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pittsburg, US | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| Wuhan, CN | 1 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Dehra Dun, IN | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Turku, FI | 1 |
| BMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Alicante, ES | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Krascheninnikovia ceratoides 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.