Sporobolus africanus
(Poir.) Robyns & Tournay · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Sporobolus africanus's data was compiled from.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility12 541 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics38 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 & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Sporobolus africanus é uma espécie de planta com flor pertencente à família Poaceae. A autoridade científica da espécie é (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay, tendo sido publicada em Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 25: 242. 1955.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology21
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Physiology & chemistry4
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 Sporobolus africanus 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 Sporobolus africanus 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 364×CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 +1
2n 181×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 181×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 301×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-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 type12 541 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 institutions34 of 73 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 | 317 |
| Brisbane, AU | 164 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 156 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 120 |
| Adelaide, AU | 116 |
| Canberra, AU | 110 |
| Auckland, NZ | 96 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 86 |
| Kew, GB | 57 |
| Durban, ZA | 50 |
| Hobart, AU | 50 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 47 |
| Kensington, AU | 46 |
| Wellington, NZ | 36 |
| Armidale, AU | 30 |
| Saint Louis, US | 29 |
| KMCClocation not on record | 24 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 23 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 18 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 16 |
| Palmerston, AU | 13 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 12 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 11 |
| Honolulu, US | 10 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 10 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 10 |
| Parkville, AU | 9 |
| Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, United States National Herbariumlocation not on record | 8 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 7 |
| Batemans Bay, AU | 5 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 5 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 5 |
| Wollongong, AU | 5 |
| Uppsala, SE | 4 |
| Bronx, US | 3 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 3 |
| GHPG$location not on record | 3 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 3 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 3 |
| EAlocation not on record | 3 |
| FTlocation not on record | 2 |
| Logan, US | 2 |
| MAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Smithfield, AU | 2 |
| BGPAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Clocation not on record | 2 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation not on record | 2 |
| Addis Ababa, ET | 2 |
| MSB-3054location not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Civico Museo di Scienze naturali Giuseppe Orlandilocation not on record | 1 |
| NSW Office of Environment and Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Agricultural Research Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Haramaya Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Glocation not on record | 1 |
| Elocation not on record | 1 |
| South African National Biodiversity Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Olocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| EFGlocation not on record | 1 |
| LNBG$location not on record | 1 |
| Montpellier, FR | 1 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| La Trobe Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| BClocation 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 Sporobolus africanus 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.