Ornithopus pinnatus
(Mill.) Druce · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Ornithopus pinnatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 801 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics12 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Ornithopus pinnatus, the orange birdsfoot, is a plant in the Fabaceae family. It was first described as Scorpiurus pinnata in 1768 by Philip Miller in The Gardeners Dictionary. In 1907, George Claridge Druce assigned it to the genus Ornithopus. It is native to Western Europe, the Mediterranean Region and Macaronesia but is found elsewhere as an introduced species.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology20
Life cycle & reproduction17
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits2
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 pinnatus 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 pinnatus 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 1417×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · nw-europe-fl +5
n 72×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Record type7 801 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 79 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 90 |
| LDlocation not on record | 78 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 74 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 62 |
| Kensington, AU | 51 |
| Auckland, NZ | 48 |
| Badajoz, ES | 43 |
| MAlocation not on record | 42 |
| Barcelona, ES | 28 |
| BClocation not on record | 23 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 22 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 18 |
| Canberra, AU | 18 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 17 |
| València, ES | 16 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 16 |
| Brisbane, AU | 15 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 14 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 12 |
| Wlocation not on record | 11 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 11 |
| Hobart, AU | 10 |
| Wellington, NZ | 10 |
| Salamanca, ES | 9 |
| South Kensington, GB | 7 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| LIVlocation not on record | 6 |
| Berlin, DE | 6 |
| Rishon Le Zion, IL | 6 |
| Vitoria, ES | 6 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 6 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 5 |
| UIBlocation not on record | 5 |
| Madrid, ES | 5 |
| Adelaide, AU | 4 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Coimbra, PT | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Córdoba, ES | 3 |
| University of Hulllocation not on record | 3 |
| Alicante, ES | 3 |
| Bourges, FR | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Sevilla, ES | 3 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 2 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 2 |
| Hunan Geological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Olocation not on record | 2 |
| Granada, ES | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dresden, DE | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Cambridge University Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| BEL|HLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| HLU|LIVlocation not on record | 1 |
| Armidale, AU | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| BGPAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| University of Readinglocation not on record | 1 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 1 |
| ESP010location not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| National Museums Northern Ireland (Ulster Museum)location not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 1 |
| Herbario Universidad de Concepciónlocation not on record | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation 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 pinnatus 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.