Usnea sphacelata è un lichene della famiglia Parmeliaceae. Questa specie è diffusa in entrambe le regioni polari, nonché in Sud America e Nuova Zelanda.
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 sphacelata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens63
Marker genes1
eDNA detections57
Countries1
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
07Deep time~4.98 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 origin4.98 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 type1 636 records
Wild obs. + sensor177
Museum / vouchered1 449
Other10
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 152 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 accuracy100% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 3
9 georeferenced · 168 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor177
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 accuracy73% within 1 km
≤100 m 2≤1 km 194≤10 km 51>10 km 22
269 georeferenced · 1 180 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 449
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 institutions23 of 38 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
AASlocation not on record
398
British Antarctic Surveylocation not on record
218
AADClocation not on record
155
Chicago, US
69
Australian Antarctic Divisionlocation not on record
29
Wellington, NZ
29
LDlocation not on record
22
Madison, US
22
Durham, US
21
Stockholm, SE
20
Clocation not on record
15
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresourceslocation not on record
12
Uppsala, SE
9
ASUlocation not on record
8
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
8
Hobart, AU
8
MeiseBGlocation not on record
7
Madrid, ES
6
Berlin, DE
6
Ann Arbor, US
5
Christchurch, NZ
5
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
4
M-Lichenslocation not on record
4
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
3
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
3
Göteborg, SE
3
Arcata, US
2
UFMSlocation not on record
2
South Kensington, GB
2
Boise, US
1
Clemson, US
1
Turku, FI
1
Mexico City, MX
1
EL PASO, US
1
Canberra, AU
1
San Diego, US
1
Bronx, US
1
St. Paul, US
1
38 institutions · 1 104 of 1 449 vouchered records shown · 52 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA57 detections
Where the DNA of Usnea sphacelata 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 found57
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 57 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
terrestrial site, from station to southterrestrial site
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 median-4.90 °C -4.90–-4.90
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.5 °C
Max temp (day)-2.40 °C
Min temp (night)-9.00 °C
Precipitation79.7 mm/mo
Air humidity53.5 %
Vapour deficit198 Pa
Cloud cover54.5 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 7 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.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 259 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System377 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI57 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics63 specimens↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗