Usnea hirta
(L.) F.H.Wigg. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Usnea hirta's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 704 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI28 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics28 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Usnea hirta is a species of beard lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was one of 80 lichen species first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers transferred it to the genus Usnea in 1780. The lichen is sensitive to air pollution, and is often used as a biomonitor of sulphur dioxide. Usnea hirta has an extensive worldwide distribution, and it is morphologically variable, which has led to numerous intraspecific taxa (i.e. subspecies, varieties, and forms) being proposed in its taxonomic history.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat & environment1
Compounds documented for Usnea hirta across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds11 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1R,3R,5R,6S,8R)-5-methyl-8-propan-2-yl-9-oxatetracyclo[6.2.2.01,6.03,5]dodecan-10-one | present | NPASS | |
| (4aS,5S,8aR)-2,5-dimethyl-5-(4-methylpent-3-enyl)-3,4,4a,6,7,8-hexahydronaphthalene-1,8a-dicarbaldehyde | present | NPASS | |
| (4S,5S,5aS,9aS)-4,5-dihydroxy-6,6,9a-trimethyl-4,5,5a,7,8,9-hexahydro-1H-benzo[e][2]benzofuran-3-one | present | NPASS | |
| (4S,5S,5aS,9aS)-4-chloro-5-hydroxy-6,6,9a-trimethyl-4,5,5a,7,8,9-hexahydro-1H-benzo[e][2]benzofuran-3-one | present | NPASS | |
| (5aR,9aS,9bR)-6,6,9a-trimethyl-5,5a,7,8,9,9b-hexahydro-1H-benzo[e][2]benzofuran-3-one | present | NPASS | |
| Hirtusneanine | present | LOTUS | |
| Hirtusneanoside | present | LOTUS | |
| methyl (1R,4aR,10aS)-1,4a-dimethyl-7-[(E)-3-oxoprop-1-enyl]-2,3,4,9,10,10a-hexahydrophenanthrene-1-carboxylate | present | NPASS | |
| methyl (2R,3R,4S,4aR)-7-[(5R,6R,10aR)-1,5,9-trihydroxy-3,6-dimethyl-8-oxo-10a-[[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]-6,7-dihydro-5H-xanthen-2-yl]-4,8,9-trihydroxy-2,3,6-trimethyl-1-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-xanthene-4a-carboxylate | present | LOTUS |
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 Usnea hirta 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 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 type13 704 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 institutions66 of 130 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Philadelphia, US | 454 |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record | 435 |
| St. Paul, US | 421 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 332 |
| University of Gdansklocation not on record | 311 |
| Uppsala, SE | 306 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 273 |
| Madison, US | 270 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 252 |
| Olocation not on record | 227 |
| LDlocation not on record | 174 |
| M-Lichenslocation not on record | 88 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 79 |
| Albuquerque, US | 71 |
| Stockholm, SE | 67 |
| Bronx, US | 66 |
| Chicago, US | 64 |
| UoB-IBlocation not on record | 56 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 55 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 52 |
| Trondheim, NO | 51 |
| Vancouver, CA | 49 |
| US | 49 |
| Bozeman, US | 48 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 45 |
| Durham, US | 41 |
| ILLSlocation not on record | 37 |
| BClocation not on record | 37 |
| Madrid, ES | 36 |
| Berlin, DE | 35 |
| MAlocation not on record | 34 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 33 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 31 |
| Helsinki, FI | 27 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 20 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 17 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 17 |
| Dhaka, BD | 17 |
| Bergen, NO | 16 |
| Tallinn, EE | 16 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 15 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 14 |
| València, ES | 13 |
| Minia, EG | 12 |
| PRClocation not on record | 12 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 12 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 11 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 10 |
| Salzburg, AT | 10 |
| PHlocation not on record | 10 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 9 |
| University of Manitobalocation not on record | 9 |
| nbflocation not on record | 9 |
| TSBlocation not on record | 9 |
| Boise, US | 7 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Winterthur, CH | 6 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 6 |
| CLUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Repubblica di San Marinolocation not on record | 6 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 6 |
| Catholic University of Pekinglocation not on record | 6 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 5 |
| Turku, FI | 5 |
| Kuopio, FI | 5 |
| Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institutelocation not on record | 5 |
| Göteborg, SE | 5 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 5 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| FLASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 4 |
| Oulu, FI | 4 |
| Forssa, FI | 4 |
| UNITOlocation not on record | 4 |
| Toronto, CA | 4 |
| Logan, US | 4 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 4 |
| Barcelona, ES | 4 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 4 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 4 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 4 |
| South Kensington, GB | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Mlocation not on record | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 3 |
| New Brunswick, US | 3 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 3 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Vitoria, ES | 3 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| Fort Hayslocation not on record | 3 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 3 |
| Staatsarchiv Urilocation not on record | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Western Ontariolocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Pocatello, US | 2 |
| Arcata, US | 2 |
| New Haven, US | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Klostermuseum Disentislocation not on record | 2 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| Yerevan, AM | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Mus�e des Confluenceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Knoxville, US | 1 |
| Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.location not on record | 1 |
| Slovak National Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Lincoln, US | 1 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| University of Hamburglocation not on record | 1 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centrelocation not on record | 1 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 1 |
| Porvoo, FI | 1 |
| Clemson, US | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 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 Usnea hirta 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.