Pseudorchis albida
(L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Pseudorchis albida's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility42 348 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics30 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↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Pseudorchis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is the small white orchid (Pseudorchis albida). It is found across much of Europe and northern Asia from Spain and Iceland to Kamchatka, including France, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Ukraine and much of Russia. It also occurs in Greenland and eastern Canada (Quebec, Newfoundland & Labrador). (Codes) Altervista Flora Italiana, Orchide candida, Pseudorchis albida (L.) Á. Löve & D. Löve Three subspecies are recognized: Pseudorchis albida subsp. albida - from Spain and Iceland to Kamchatka Pseudorchis albida subsp. straminea - Scandinavia, northern Russia, Greenland, Canada Pseudorchis albida subsp. tricuspis - Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Romania, former Yugoslavia
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry3
Other traits1
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 Pseudorchis albida 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 Pseudorchis albida 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 4220×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · poland · CCDB · mediterranean +6
2n 401×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew
n 211×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
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 type42 348 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 institutions32 of 75 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Olocation not on record | 309 |
| South Kensington, GB | 262 |
| Trondheim, NO | 205 |
| Salzburg, AT | 201 |
| Bergen, NO | 125 |
| LDlocation not on record | 114 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 86 |
| Clocation not on record | 63 |
| Zürich, CH | 57 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 49 |
| Dresden, DE | 47 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 40 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 40 |
| Bern, CH | 39 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 37 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 36 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 32 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 27 |
| Zürich, CH | 27 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 20 |
| Chicago, US | 19 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 17 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 16 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 16 |
| Glarus, CH | 12 |
| nbflocation not on record | 12 |
| BClocation not on record | 11 |
| Wlocation not on record | 11 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 10 |
| MAlocation not on record | 10 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 10 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 8 |
| Barcelona, ES | 8 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 8 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 8 |
| Vitoria, ES | 8 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 7 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 6 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 6 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 5 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 5 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 4 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 4 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 4 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 4 |
| Salamanca, ES | 3 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 3 |
| València, ES | 3 |
| Berlin, DE | 3 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 3 |
| Madison, US | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 2 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 2 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 1 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fribourg, CH | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| Mlocation not on record | 1 |
| Podgorica, ME | 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 Pseudorchis albida 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.