Root-Associated Fungal Communities for Critically Small Cypripedium Subtropicum Orchid

Yunnan Province, China, is the geographic scope for this dataset on root-associated fungal communities in the critically small population orchid Cypripedium subtropicum. It contains results from Illumina Novaseq high-throughput sequencing of 120 samples from 12 habitats across four regions. Mei Hua published the data under a CC-BY-4.0 license, with a last update recorded on 2026-06-03.

Use Cases

• Compare fungal community composition and diversity between root-endosphere and rhizosphere soil samples.
• Analyze regional variations in dominant fungi, such as Mortierella in Wenshan or Fusarium in Kunming cultivated samples.
• Identify core fungal species distributed across all sampled regions, like Mortierella sp. and Fusarium solani.
• Assess differences in fungal richness and diversity between wild, introduced, and seed-propagated orchid populations.

Strengths

• Includes data from 120 samples collected from 12 distinct habitats, allowing for habitat-level comparisons.
• Reports a total of 34,564 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) detected in root-associated samples from Wenshan Prefecture.
• Compares fungal communities across four specific regions in Yunnan: Wenshan, Baoshan, Nujiang, and Kunming.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 20.3 KB, indicating a limited scope of data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Mei Hua.

Collection Method

Illumina Novaseq high-throughput sequencing of fungal communities from root and soil samples.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:15:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Yunnan Province, China, specifically Wenshan, Baoshan, Nujiang, and Kunming regions.