Notobasis syriaca
(L.) Cass. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Notobasis syriaca's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 788 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & 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.
Flowerhead Notobasis syriaca, the Syrian thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, from Madeira, the Canary Islands, Morocco and Portugal east to Egypt, Iran and Azerbaijan. It is an annual plant belonging to the semi-desert flora, growing to 30–100 cm tall. The leaves are spirally arranged on the stems, deeply lobed, grey-green with white veins, and sharp spines on the margins and apex. The flowers are purple, produced in a dense flowerhead (capitulum) 2 cm diameter, surrounded by several spiny basal bracts.Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Notobasis includes photos and distribution maps In the Greek island of Crete, where it is called agavanos (αγκάβανος), its tender shoots are peeled and eaten raw by the local people. It is naturalised in Australia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology11
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment12
Other traits3
Compounds documented for Notobasis syriaca across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds8 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apigenin | present | LOTUS | |
| Apiumetrin | present | LOTUS | |
| Chrysoeriol | present | LOTUS | |
| Isorhamnetin | present | LOTUS | |
| Isoschaftoside | present | LOTUS | |
| Kaempferol | present | LOTUS | |
| Kaempferol 7-glucoside | present | LOTUS | |
| Luteolin 7-diglucoside | 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 Notobasis syriaca 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 Notobasis syriaca 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 3420×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +4
n 03×CCDB · CromoCat 2015
diploid 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 type5 788 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 institutions20 of 39 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Berlin, DE | 70 |
| LDlocation not on record | 46 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 36 |
| BClocation not on record | 20 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 11 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Córdoba, ES | 11 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 8 |
| Rishon Le Zion, IL | 8 |
| Badajoz, ES | 6 |
| Barcelona, ES | 5 |
| Kew, GB | 5 |
| Sevilla, ES | 4 |
| MAlocation not on record | 4 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 3 |
| JBSlocation not on record | 3 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| Wlocation not on record | 3 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| Flagstaff, US | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| Uppsala, SE | 2 |
| Granada, ES | 2 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 2 |
| UIBlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Salamanca, ES | 1 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 1 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hunan Geological Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Brussel, BE | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| València, ES | 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 Notobasis syriaca 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.