Ornithopus perpusillus
speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Ornithopus perpusillus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility100 850 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics24 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
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Ornithopus perpusillus or little white bird's-foot, is a plant species of the genus Ornithopus.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology24
Life cycle & reproduction15
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry8
Other traits3
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 Ornithopus perpusillus 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 Ornithopus perpusillus 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 1421×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · brit-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +9
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
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 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 type100 850 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 institutions57 of 115 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 | 214 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 186 |
| Brussel, BE | 143 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 77 |
| Bern, CH | 75 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 70 |
| Görlitz, DE | 65 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 57 |
| MAlocation not on record | 57 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 57 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 52 |
| South Kensington, GB | 43 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 40 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 36 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 31 |
| València, ES | 28 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 26 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 26 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 26 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 25 |
| Uppsala, SE | 25 |
| Auckland, NZ | 25 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 23 |
| Madrid, ES | 21 |
| Salamanca, ES | 20 |
| Barcelona, ES | 20 |
| Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V.location not on record | 16 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 16 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 16 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 15 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 15 |
| Mlocation not on record | 15 |
| Berlin, DE | 14 |
| Badajoz, ES | 14 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 14 |
| Vitoria, ES | 14 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 14 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 14 |
| Wellington, NZ | 13 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 12 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 12 |
| BClocation not on record | 10 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 9 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 9 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 8 |
| Tilburg, NL | 8 |
| Philadelphia, US | 8 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 8 |
| Fulda, DE | 8 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 7 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 7 |
| Paris, FR | 6 |
| Corvallis, US | 5 |
| Bourges, FR | 5 |
| Monastir, TN | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 4 |
| Pamplona, ES | 4 |
| Hobart, AU | 4 |
| Dresden, DE | 4 |
| Alicante, ES | 4 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 4 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Pamplona, ES | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 3 |
| Wlocation not on record | 3 |
| PRClocation not on record | 3 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 3 |
| Salvador, BR | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 2 |
| Universität Erlangen-Nürnberglocation not on record | 2 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 2 |
| Olocation not on record | 2 |
| Jaén, ES | 2 |
| ER Hellerlocation not on record | 2 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Zürich, CH | 2 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 2 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Namur, BE | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Trondheim, NO | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Córdoba, ES | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sanda, JP | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation 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 Ornithopus perpusillus 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.