Laccaria bicolor
(Maire) P.D.Orton · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Laccaria bicolor's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 873 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 439 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics56 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Laccaria bicolor is a small tan-colored mushroom with lilac gills. It is edible but not choice, and grows in mixed birch and pine woods. It is found in the temperate zones of the globe, in late summer and autumn. L. bicolor is an ectomycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture.
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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 Laccaria bicolor 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 Laccaria bicolor 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).
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 periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. The dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. 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 type7 873 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 institutions43 of 84 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Chicago, US | 92 |
| TENN-Flocation not on record | 91 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 76 |
| Olocation not on record | 56 |
| Denver, US | 56 |
| Helsinki, FI | 42 |
| Vancouver, CA | 37 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 34 |
| Joensuu, FI | 34 |
| Durham, US | 32 |
| Durango, MX | 29 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 28 |
| Uppsala, SE | 24 |
| St. Paul, US | 23 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 23 |
| Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centrelocation not on record | 22 |
| Kew, GB | 21 |
| Trondheim, NO | 17 |
| Tomioka, JP | 15 |
| Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocagelocation not on record | 14 |
| Osaka, JP | 13 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 12 |
| Philadelphia, US | 12 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 10 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 10 |
| Bando, JP | 10 |
| Mlocation not on record | 9 |
| Bardejov, SK | 9 |
| IB FRC Komi SC UB RASlocation not on record | 9 |
| Göteborg, SE | 8 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 8 |
| National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record | 8 |
| WU-MYClocation not on record | 8 |
| Kuopio, FI | 8 |
| FLASlocation not on record | 8 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 7 |
| Salzburg, AT | 7 |
| JA-CAGPDS-CAMlocation not on record | 7 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 7 |
| Toronto, CA | 7 |
| Görlitz, DE | 6 |
| Zürich, CH | 5 |
| Rene Pomerleau Herbariumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Bronx, US | 5 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 4 |
| Tartu, EE | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| California State University, East Baylocation not on record | 3 |
| Oulu, FI | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 3 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 3 |
| MAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 2 |
| Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record | 2 |
| LDlocation not on record | 2 |
| National Mushroom Centre, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Bhutanlocation not on record | 2 |
| Mérida, ES | 2 |
| nsnflocation not on record | 2 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 2 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 2 |
| Youngstown State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| ILLSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Slovenian Forestry Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Kyiv, UA | 1 |
| Davis and Elkins Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Warsaw, PL | 1 |
| DIEF VALONSADEROlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chiba, JP | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| Royal Ontario Museum, TRTC Fungariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 1 |
| Personal Herbarium of Paula DeSantolocation not on record | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| Turku, FI | 1 |
| Private Collection of Autumn Anglinlocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| DPIlocation 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 Laccaria bicolor 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?
Measured at samplingin-field
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.