Neonotonia wightii
(Wight & Arn.) J.A.Lackey · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Neonotonia wightii's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 775 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics22 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
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
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Neonotonia wightii, the perennial soybean, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to subSaharan Africa, Yemen, India, and Sri Lanka, and widely introduced as a forage in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, the Mascarene Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, and Fiji. It is shade tolerant.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology14
Life cycle & reproduction26
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment31
Physiology & chemistry22
Uses & economy15
Other traits6
Compounds documented for Neonotonia wightii across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds52 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2'6-HYDROXYGENISTEIN | 4.99 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| GENISTEIN | 4.99 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
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 Neonotonia wightii 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 Neonotonia wightii 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 201×CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 221×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 401×CCDB · Cave1963
n 111×CCDB · Cannon, 2015
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 775 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 institutions40 of 82 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 | 162 |
| Brisbane, AU | 96 |
| Durban, ZA | 58 |
| Saint Louis, US | 50 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 39 |
| Canberra, AU | 34 |
| Kew, GB | 25 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 24 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 21 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 19 |
| Smithfield, AU | 18 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 18 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 12 |
| Bronx, US | 12 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 12 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 11 |
| Taipei, TW | 11 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 10 |
| Honolulu, US | 9 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 9 |
| Taipei, TW | 9 |
| Xiamen, CN | 7 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 7 |
| Blumenau, BR | 6 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 6 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 5 |
| Palmerston, AU | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 5 |
| Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, United States National Herbariumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 4 |
| MSB-3054location not on record | 4 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 4 |
| Uppsala, SE | 4 |
| South African National Biodiversity Institutelocation not on record | 4 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 4 |
| Maringá, BR | 3 |
| Brasília, BR | 3 |
| Herbier National du Gabonlocation not on record | 3 |
| James Cook Townsvillelocation not on record | 3 |
| Hobart, AU | 3 |
| Armidale, AU | 3 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 3 |
| Brasília, BR | 3 |
| UFMGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| UNESP-FCAlocation not on record | 3 |
| EAlocation not on record | 3 |
| San Isidro, AR | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| UNIVASFlocation not on record | 2 |
| UTFPR-SLlocation not on record | 2 |
| ESALQlocation not on record | 2 |
| Addis Ababa, ET | 2 |
| University of Oxfordlocation not on record | 2 |
| UFPElocation not on record | 2 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Plocation not on record | 2 |
| Pondicherry, IN | 2 |
| DSMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 2 |
| Zürich, CH | 2 |
| UNESClocation not on record | 2 |
| Adelaide, AU | 2 |
| Arusha, TZ | 1 |
| USP-IBlocation not on record | 1 |
| LISClocation not on record | 1 |
| HNBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| Criciúma, BR | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 1 |
| Foz do Iguaçu, BR | 1 |
| LNBG$location not on record | 1 |
| National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropicallocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidade Federal do Ceara, Departamento de Biologialocation not on record | 1 |
| UNESP, Campus São José Rio Prêtolocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sullocation not on record | 1 |
| Ural Federal University "B. N. Yeltsin"location 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 Neonotonia wightii 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.