Usnea intermedia, the western bushy beard, is a grayish-yellowish pale green, irregularly much-branching, stiff shrubby fruticose lichen commonly anchored on holdfasts on trees, often on oaks.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, Abundant apothecia are convex discs with a ring or thallus-like margin having tendril-like fringe radiating from it. It was formerly called U. arizonica in North America.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 intermedia has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens10
Marker genes1
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections10
Countries5
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★ITS10
fungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 954 records
Wild obs. + sensor907
Museum / vouchered1 037
Cultivated / captive1
Other9
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 672 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 accuracy71% within 1 km
≤100 m 370≤1 km 81≤10 km 176>10 km 11
638 georeferenced · 269 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor907
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 accuracy18% within 1 km
≤100 m 51≤1 km 42≤10 km 426>10 km 8
527 georeferenced · 510 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 037
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions27 of 52 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
CJBGlocation not on record
360
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record
183
University of Gdansklocation not on record
56
GZUlocation not on record
55
BClocation not on record
55
ASUlocation not on record
44
Philadelphia, US
23
US
23
Durham, US
22
Vancouver, CA
16
Berlin, DE
15
M-Lichenslocation not on record
15
Dhaka, BD
13
PRClocation not on record
11
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
9
Boise, US
9
TSBlocation not on record
6
Uppsala, SE
6
Salzburg, AT
5
Stockholm, SE
4
LDlocation not on record
4
Frauenfeld, CH
4
Madison, US
4
Klostermuseum Disentislocation not on record
4
St. Paul, US
3
Santa Barbara, US
3
Helsinki, FI
2
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSLlocation not on record
2
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
2
BG-NMNHSlocation not on record
2
Staatsarchiv Urilocation not on record
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
Bergen, NO
2
Minia, EG
2
CLUlocation not on record
2
UNITOlocation not on record
2
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
1
EL PASO, US
1
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
1
Logan, US
1
Portland, US
1
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record
1
Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocagelocation not on record
1
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
San Luis Obispo, US
1
Mexico City, MX
1
Davis, US
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
1
US
1
Winterthur, CH
1
52 institutions · 988 of 1 037 vouchered records shown · 49 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA10 detections
Where the DNA of Usnea intermedia 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 found10
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 10 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Abies alba (logged)Picea sp.
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 median1.20 °C -0.1–2.40
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.1 °C
Max temp (day)4.70 °C 3.50–5.90
Min temp (night)-3.30 °C -4.70–-1.90
Precipitation95.7 mm/mo 90.2–101
Air humidity59.5 % 58.6–60.4
Moisture balance70.2 mm/mo 60.9–79.5
Vapour deficit274 Pa 254–293
Wind speed1.80 m/s 1.60–1.90
Cloud cover52.7 % 52.7–52.8
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 954 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗