Sherardia arvensis

TaxID: 29803

Basic Information

Sherardia arvensis

Blue Field-madder, Field Madder, field madder

Sherardia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, Sherardia arvensis, the (blue) field madder, which is widespread across most of Europe and northern Africa as well as southwest and central Asia (from Turkey to Saudi Arabia to Kazakhstan) and Macaronesia (Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira, Savage Islands). It is also reportedly naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Kerguelen, Ethiopia, Sudan, southern Africa, Mexico, Costa Rica, South America, Bermuda, Cuba, Haiti and much of Canada and the United States (especially the Pacific States and the lower Mississippi Valley).

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Gentianales

Rubiaceae

Sherardia

arvensis

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Sherardia arvensis
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(c) Douglas Goldman@BY-SA
Sherardia arvensis
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(c) Douglas Goldman@BY-SA
Sherardia arvensis
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(c) Gilles San Martin@BY-SA
Sherardia arvensis
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(c) L. K. Holt@BY
Sherardia arvensis
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(c) rudyclaeys@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Sri Lanka Quarantine pests —

Distribution (75 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_948330725.1 Chromosome 440 18882 43593 -
GCA_948329965.1 Contig 7 28 28 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR10890681 - - hermaphrodite and monoecious 26728651 -

DNA Barcodes (33 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
UGEAB032-16 - rbcL 572 Switzerland 2016-04-20 46.217224, 6.122273
UGEAB032-16 - matK 762 Switzerland 2016-04-20 46.217224, 6.122273
SDH1982-14 - rbcLa 552 United States 1962-05-08 32.731, -117.159
SDH1982-14 - ITS2 352 United States 1962-05-08 32.731, -117.159
POWNA676-10 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 2002-06-11 51.509533, -3.209619
POWNA676-10 - matK 874 United Kingdom 2002-06-11 51.509533, -3.209619
POWNA676-10 - ITS2 456 United Kingdom 2002-06-11 51.509533, -3.209619
POWNA2531-12 - rbcL 529 United Kingdom 2007-08-25 51.452923, -3.161349
POWNA2531-12 - ITS2 456 United Kingdom 2007-08-25 51.452923, -3.161349
POWNA2530-12 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 1983-06-12 51.48446, -3.545248
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Literature