Lepidium coronopus
(L.) Al-Shehbaz · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Lepidium coronopus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility51 325 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics18 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Lepidium coronopus, (swine cress, creeping wart cress, or greater swine cress), is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family which is native to parts of Africa, western Asia and Europe, growing in shingle banks, wasteland or cultivated fields.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology22
Life cycle & reproduction18
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry5
Other traits5
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 Lepidium coronopus 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 Lepidium coronopus 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).
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 3221×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +8
n 163×CCDB · brass
tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 type51 325 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 institutions35 of 68 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| LDlocation not on record | 233 |
| Zürich, CH | 116 |
| Zürich, CH | 86 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 74 |
| Helsinki, FI | 70 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 65 |
| Olocation not on record | 45 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 37 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 29 |
| Auckland, NZ | 27 |
| Bergen, NO | 23 |
| South Kensington, GB | 19 |
| Hobart, AU | 17 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 16 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 16 |
| Görlitz, DE | 15 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 14 |
| Trondheim, NO | 11 |
| Turku, FI | 9 |
| Berlin, DE | 9 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| Kuopio, FI | 7 |
| Oulu, FI | 7 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 7 |
| Adelaide, AU | 7 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 7 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 6 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 5 |
| Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V.location not on record | 5 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 5 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 4 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 4 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 4 |
| Canberra, AU | 4 |
| Wlocation not on record | 4 |
| Davis, US | 4 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 4 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 3 |
| BClocation not on record | 3 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Wellington, NZ | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 1 |
| Universität Erlangen-Nürnberglocation not on record | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| Arcata, US | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brisbane, AU | 1 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Podgorica, ME | 1 |
| Palmerston, AU | 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 Lepidium coronopus 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.