Physcia stellaris
(L.) Nyl. · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Physcia stellaris's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 066 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI18 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
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.
Physcia stellaris is a species of lichen. It is pale grey, but darker in the centre, and lacks isidia, lobules, soredia and pruina. It tests negative with potassium hydroxide. In North America, it is known colloquially as the fringed rosette lichen.
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 Physcia stellaris 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.
The complete instruction manual Physcia stellaris 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
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).
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.
Record type13 066 records
Origin
Range
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 institutions75 of 151 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bronx, US | 568 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 552 |
| St. Paul, US | 535 |
| Madison, US | 486 |
| Olocation not on record | 349 |
| Uppsala, SE | 340 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 204 |
| University of Gdansklocation not on record | 202 |
| Chicago, US | 201 |
| Philadelphia, US | 176 |
| BClocation not on record | 157 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 153 |
| ILLSlocation not on record | 147 |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record | 127 |
| LDlocation not on record | 121 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 106 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 99 |
| UoB-IBlocation not on record | 89 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 83 |
| Durham, US | 80 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 80 |
| US | 72 |
| Berlin, DE | 62 |
| Bergen, NO | 62 |
| Helsinki, FI | 60 |
| Salzburg, AT | 58 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 54 |
| TSBlocation not on record | 52 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 47 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 47 |
| Minia, EG | 46 |
| PHlocation not on record | 44 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 42 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 39 |
| Trondheim, NO | 37 |
| New Haven, US | 36 |
| Champaign, US | 34 |
| M-Lichenslocation not on record | 33 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 33 |
| Vancouver, CA | 30 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 29 |
| Knoxville, US | 28 |
| Barcelona, ES | 28 |
| MAlocation not on record | 28 |
| Stockholm, SE | 27 |
| València, ES | 26 |
| Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institutelocation not on record | 23 |
| Madrid, ES | 23 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 23 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 21 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 20 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 20 |
| Burlington, US | 19 |
| FLASlocation not on record | 19 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 18 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 18 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 17 |
| Boise, US | 17 |
| UNITOlocation not on record | 16 |
| Brisbane, AU | 16 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 16 |
| Mlocation not on record | 15 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 15 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 15 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 15 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 15 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 14 |
| EL PASO, US | 14 |
| Bozeman, US | 14 |
| Fort Hayslocation not on record | 13 |
| Kensington, AU | 13 |
| Dhaka, BD | 13 |
| Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record | 13 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 12 |
| University of Western Ontariolocation not on record | 12 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 12 |
| CLUlocation not on record | 12 |
| Toronto, CA | 12 |
| Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 11 |
| South Kensington, GB | 10 |
| Repubblica di San Marinolocation not on record | 9 |
| Porvoo, FI | 8 |
| Tallinn, EE | 7 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 7 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 7 |
| Lincoln, US | 7 |
| Adelaide, AU | 7 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centrelocation not on record | 6 |
| Bourges, FR | 6 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 6 |
| nbflocation not on record | 6 |
| Göteborg, SE | 6 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 6 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 6 |
| Wellington, NZ | 6 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 6 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 6 |
| Bloomington, US | 5 |
| Forssa, FI | 5 |
| New Brunswick, US | 5 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 5 |
| Staatsarchiv Urilocation not on record | 5 |
| Albuquerque, US | 5 |
| Chicago, US | 5 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 5 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 4 |
| Royal Ontario Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 4 |
| Oulu, FI | 3 |
| Clarksville, US | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| PRClocation not on record | 3 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record | 3 |
| Klostermuseum Disentislocation not on record | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| WU-MYClocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Manitobalocation not on record | 2 |
| Canberra, AU | 2 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Lake Charles, US | 2 |
| AADClocation not on record | 2 |
| College Park, US | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Logan, US | 2 |
| Vitoria, ES | 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 |
| Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchlocation not on record | 2 |
| Grupo Actinomicetales Merida Facultad de Medicinalocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 2 |
| UAclocation not on record | 1 |
| Yerevan, AM | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Researchlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia Giancarlo Ligabue | Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabuelocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| Garðabær, IS | 1 |
| Zapopan, MX | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Natural History and Science Museum of the University of PO-Lrto (MHNC-UP)location not on record | 1 |
| DPIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Clemson, 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 Physcia stellaris 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.