Amandinea punctata
(Hoffm.) Coppins & Scheid. · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Amandinea punctata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility29 350 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System31 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Amandinea punctata (tiny button lichen) is a crustose brown to gray lichen that grows on wood and rock around the world.Amandinea punctata in the Joshua Tree National Park (California, U.S.A.) Map collection: Kerry Knudsen, Kocourková Jana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Ecology, Czech Republic; 2012 It grows on, not in the wood (epiphytic). It prefers bark that is acidic. In California, it is among the most common crustose lichens occurring on trees. Sometimes its thallus is absent, and branches may be covered in its lecideine apothecia. Because of its tolerance of low humidity, it is one of the few epiphytic lichens growing on trees in California deserts, where it commonly grows on the old, dry wood of junipers, and sometimes fallen pinyon pines and oaks, or on their dead branches. Compared to other lichens, it is tolerant of air pollutants and other toxins such as NO2 and SO2.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat & environment1
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 Amandinea punctata 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.
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 dashed rules marked ✦ are the five great mass extinctions. 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 type29 381 records
Origin
Range
Depth
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 institutions64 of 137 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Wuzhou, CN | 438 |
| University of Gdansklocation not on record | 407 |
| Bronx, US | 355 |
| Madison, US | 332 |
| LDlocation not on record | 280 |
| St. Paul, US | 263 |
| Olocation not on record | 236 |
| Philadelphia, US | 225 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 222 |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record | 179 |
| Uppsala, SE | 154 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 130 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 112 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 111 |
| US | 99 |
| Brisbane, AU | 93 |
| Chicago, US | 92 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 90 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 90 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 79 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 76 |
| Bergen, NO | 76 |
| Trondheim, NO | 71 |
| M-Lichenslocation not on record | 70 |
| Berlin, DE | 61 |
| Durham, US | 53 |
| TSBlocation not on record | 53 |
| ILLSlocation not on record | 50 |
| Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institutelocation not on record | 45 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 45 |
| Helsinki, FI | 42 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 41 |
| UoB-IBlocation not on record | 38 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 36 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 34 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 34 |
| Canberra, AU | 34 |
| South Kensington, GB | 33 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 33 |
| Minia, EG | 32 |
| Boise, US | 31 |
| MNHWlocation not on record | 26 |
| Madrid, ES | 25 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 23 |
| Hobart, AU | 23 |
| Salzburg, AT | 21 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 20 |
| Bozeman, US | 19 |
| Göteborg, SE | 19 |
| Auckland, NZ | 18 |
| nbflocation not on record | 17 |
| València, ES | 17 |
| Fort Hayslocation not on record | 16 |
| MAlocation not on record | 16 |
| 16 | |
| PHlocation not on record | 15 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 14 |
| PRClocation not on record | 14 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 13 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 13 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 13 |
| UNITOlocation not on record | 12 |
| Staatsarchiv Urilocation not on record | 12 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Toronto, CA | 10 |
| Kensington, AU | 9 |
| Vitoria, ES | 9 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 9 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 9 |
| Dhaka, BD | 9 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 8 |
| Yerevan, AM | 7 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Tallinn, EE | 6 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| WU-MYClocation not on record | 6 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 6 |
| Mlocation not on record | 6 |
| British Antarctic Surveylocation not on record | 5 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Klostermuseum Disentislocation not on record | 5 |
| BClocation not on record | 4 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 4 |
| CLUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Repubblica di San Marinolocation not on record | 4 |
| CASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.location not on record | 3 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 3 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Kew, GB | 3 |
| Adelaide, AU | 3 |
| Royal Ontario Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record | 3 |
| New Brunswick, US | 3 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 3 |
| University of Manitobalocation not on record | 3 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 3 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 3 |
| Logan, US | 3 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Durham, US | 2 |
| VALElocation not on record | 2 |
| Wellington, NZ | 2 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 2 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 2 |
| ARMS-MBONlocation not on record | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Clemson, US | 2 |
| Barcelona, ES | 2 |
| Clocation not on record | 2 |
| Columbia, US | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Sion, CH | 2 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 2 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 2 |
| Tilburg, NL | 2 |
| Lincoln, US | 1 |
| AASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| UAclocation not on record | 1 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 1 |
| DPIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Winterthur, CH | 1 |
| Albuquerque, US | 1 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 1 |
| FLASlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Turku, FI | 1 |
| Edmonton, CA | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 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 Amandinea punctata 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.