Stipellula capensis
(Thunb.) Röser & Hamasha · speciesAt a glance
Sources6 archives
Databases and archives Stipellula capensis's data was compiled from.
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Das Gedrehte Federgras (Stipellula capensis, Syn.: Stipa capensis, Stipa tortilis) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Stipellula und damit der Familie der Süßgräser (Poaceae).
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology9
Life cycle & reproduction7
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
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 Stipellula capensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
The complete instruction manual Stipellula capensis 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 3619×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea +4
2n 181×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
n 183×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
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 type1 584 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions8 of 18 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 | 109 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 41 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 10 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| San Diego, US | 9 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 6 |
| Dresden, DE | 5 |
| Wlocation not on record | 3 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Long Beach, US | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Elocation not on record | 1 |
| BClocation not on record | 1 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |