Pectenia plumbea

(Lightf.) P.M.Jørg., L.Lindblom, Wedin & S.Ekman · species

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Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Peltigerales/Pannariaceae/Pectenia

At a glance

Occurrence records7 656

Data sources6

Biological traits1

DNA specimens4

eDNA detections5

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Pectenia plumbea's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 656 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources1 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF7 656 records

Environmental DNA2 datasets · 2 countries5 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD4 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT≈26 Mbp

01Narrative

Degelia plumbea (also called blue felt lichen) is a species of grey to blue-black or brown foliose lichen in the genus Degelia. It mostly grows on trees in undisturbed woodlands but occasionally on coastal rocks. It is found widely in Britain and western Ireland as well as in America and Canada, as it grows in maritime Atlantic climates. D. plumbea is highly sensitive to acid rain and climatic changes. Degelia cyanoloma was previously thought to be a variant of D. plumbea.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesTRY

Habitat & environment1

Growth formlichen

05DNA & barcoding4 specimens

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 Pectenia plumbea has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens4

Marker genes1

eDNA detections5

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 manual Pectenia plumbea 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≈26 109 501 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 Pectenia plumbea0.03 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~53.1 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 origin53.1 Ma TimeTree

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.

DNA clock origin

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type7 656 records

Wild obs. + sensor6 404

Museum / vouchered1 252

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO14 764 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 accuracy87% within 1 km

≤100 m 4 071≤1 km 517≤10 km 505>10 km 163

5 256 georeferenced · 1 148 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor6 404

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 accuracy79% within 1 km

≤100 m 394≤1 km 444≤10 km 188>10 km 29

1 055 georeferenced · 197 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 252

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 institutions12 of 29 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Olocation not on record	412
Bergen, NO	204
Trondheim, NO	185
CLUlocation not on record	98
LDlocation not on record	91
TSBlocation not on record	39
Durham, US	38
Madison, US	33
TROMlocation not on record	24
nbflocation not on record	17
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record	16
San Sebastián, ES	14
MeiseBGlocation not on record	10
BioFokuslocation not on record	8
Uppsala, SE	7
Göteborg, SE	6
Madrid, ES	5
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record	4
University of Gdansklocation not on record	4
Oskarshamn, SE	3
Vitoria, ES	3
UNITOlocation not on record	2
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record	2
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record	1
Wlocation not on record	1
MAlocation not on record	1
Helsinki, FI	1
MFUlocation not on record	1
Berlin, DE	1

29 institutions · 1 231 of 1 252 vouchered records shown · 20 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA5 detections

Where the DNA of Pectenia plumbea 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 found5

Studies independent surveys2

Countries2

Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 5 detections have coordinates

Open the map2 countries0

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 median13.9 °C 12.9–15.0

Seasonal swing summer↔winter11.4 °C

Max temp (day)18.5 °C 17.2–19.8

Min temp (night)8.60 °C 8.20–8.90

Precipitation64.6 mm/mo 39.7–89.6

Air humidity60.2 % 54.3–66.0

Moisture balance-35.1 mm/mo -56.4–-13.7

Vapour deficit714 Pa 523–906

Wind speed2.50 m/s 2.10–2.90

Cloud cover47.7 % 40.2–55.2

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · 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.

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Pectenia plumbea

At a glance

Sources6 archives

Habitat & environment1

At a glance

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

At a glance

When this lineage existed

Record type7 656 records

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions12 of 29 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type7 656 records