Dimelaena oreina, the golden moonglow lichen, is a greenish yellow placodioid lichen.Dimelaena oreina, Encyclopedia of Life The color of the greenish yellow thallus is derived from usnic acid in the cortex.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Dimelaena oreina across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Dimelaena oreina has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
Marker genes1
eDNA detections8
Countries2
Marker genes sequenced
★ 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.
★ITS
fungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualDimelaena oreina 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size≈28 251 889 bp assembly estimate
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
THIS GENOME Dimelaena oreina0.03 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Assembly levelScaffold
07Deep time~79.2 Ma lineage
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
DNA clock origin79.2 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. 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.
DNA clock originmass extinction
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type4 494 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 142
Museum / vouchered2 321
Other31
Origin
Native57
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO11 728 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 010≤1 km 254≤10 km 258>10 km 122
1 644 georeferenced · 498 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 142
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.
Coordinate accuracy47% within 1 km
≤100 m 72≤1 km 231≤10 km 294>10 km 41
638 georeferenced · 1 683 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 321
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions50 of 97 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
ASUlocation not on record
355
Wuzhou, CN
223
Madison, US
218
St. Paul, US
191
Bronx, US
188
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record
78
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
69
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
67
Chicago, US
55
Olocation not on record
50
Uppsala, SE
47
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
45
Berlin, DE
41
Bozeman, US
36
Durham, US
36
BDBClocation not on record
35
Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record
32
US
31
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record
31
Clocation not on record
29
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record
25
València, ES
23
Santa Barbara, US
22
PHlocation not on record
22
TROMlocation not on record
19
TSBlocation not on record
19
EL PASO, US
14
Fort Hayslocation not on record
13
Salzburg, AT
13
Minia, EG
12
ILLSlocation not on record
12
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
12
Boise, US
11
LDlocation not on record
11
Bergen, NO
9
Université Lavallocation not on record
8
WTUlocation not on record
8
Chapel Hill, US
8
Stockholm, SE
7
UNITOlocation not on record
7
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institutelocation not on record
7
Barcelona, ES
7
Madrid, ES
6
Staatsarchiv Urilocation not on record
6
Edmonton, CA
5
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
5
Pretoria, ZA
5
Trondheim, NO
5
GZUlocation not on record
5
Helsinki, FI
5
Vancouver, CA
4
AUAlocation not on record
4
Ann Arbor, US
4
Champaign, US
3
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
3
BioFokuslocation not on record
3
Oskarshamn, SE
3
MeiseBGlocation not on record
3
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
3
Anchorage, US
3
San Diego, US
3
Albuquerque, US
3
Natural History and Science Museum of the University of PO-Lrto (MHNC-UP)location not on record
2
M-Lichenslocation not on record
2
Chicago, US
2
Oregon State Universitylocation not on record
2
MAlocation not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
2
Mexico City, MX
2
Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.location not on record
2
University of Gdansklocation not on record
2
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
2
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
2
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
2
Henderson, US
1
Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record
1
Göteborg, SE
1
Masindi, UG
1
San Sebastián, ES
1
Mlocation not on record
1
Pullman, US
1
San Luis Obispo, US
1
Davis, US
1
Morgantown, US
1
BClocation not on record
1
Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record
1
Frauenfeld, CH
1
Dhaka, BD
1
Kuopio, FI
1
US
1
Royal Ontario Museumlocation not on record
1
Klostermuseum Disentislocation not on record
1
Acadia Universitylocation not on record
1
Oulu, FI
1
Edinburgh, GB
1
Auckland, NZ
1
FLASlocation not on record
1
97 institutions · 2 274 of 2 321 vouchered records shown · 46 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA8 detections
Where the DNA of Dimelaena oreina 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
Detections DNA found8
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 8 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median7.00 °C 7.00–7.00
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.8 °C
Max temp (day)11.2 °C
Min temp (night)2.10 °C
Precipitation170 mm/mo
Air humidity64.0 %
Moisture balance100 mm/mo
Vapour deficit403 Pa
Wind speed2.60 m/s
Cloud cover44.9 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 494 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗