Xanthoparmelia loxodes is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first formally described by Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1872, as Parmelia loxodes. In 1978, Ted Esslinger created the genus Neofuscelia, which contained species previously classified in Parmelia subgenus Neofusca; Neofuscelia loxodes was one of many species transferred here. In a 2004 molecular phylogenetic study published by Oscar Blanco, Ana Crespo, John A. Elix, David L. Hawksworth and H. Thorsten Lumbsch, they showed that Neofuscelia did not form a clade distinct from Xanthoparmelia, and they reduced it to synonymy under Xanthoparmelia. Xanthoparmelia loxodes is widely distributed in Europe, where it grows on siliceous rocks.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Xanthoparmelia loxodes across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Depsides1
Documented compounds1 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
Glomelliferic acid
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding13 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 Xanthoparmelia loxodes has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens13
Marker genes2
eDNA detections13
Countries4
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★ITS1
fungal barcode
07Deep time~2.86 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 origin2.86 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 type3 757 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 891
Museum / vouchered856
Other10
Origin
Native20
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO9 688 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 accuracy72% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 311≤1 km 666≤10 km 755>10 km 7
2 739 georeferenced · 152 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 891
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 accuracy35% within 1 km
≤100 m 109≤1 km 83≤10 km 337>10 km 13
542 georeferenced · 314 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence856
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 institutions29 of 53 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
LDlocation not on record
118
Olocation not on record
109
University of Gdansklocation not on record
45
Madison, US
27
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
22
Stockholm, SE
21
Bergen, NO
19
Durham, US
17
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
16
TSBlocation not on record
16
Philadelphia, US
14
BDBClocation not on record
12
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
9
Trondheim, NO
9
CJBGlocation not on record
8
Wuzhou, CN
6
Uppsala, SE
6
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
6
MeiseBGlocation not on record
5
Helsinki, FI
5
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
5
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
5
CLUlocation not on record
4
Natural History and Science Museum of the University of PO-Lrto (MHNC-UP)location not on record
4
Bozeman, US
3
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record
3
PRClocation not on record
3
Göteborg, SE
3
nbflocation not on record
3
Madrid, ES
3
Bronx, US
3
Chicago, US
3
Porvoo, FI
3
Tallinn, EE
3
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record
3
Dhaka, BD
2
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
2
Berlin, DE
2
BioFokuslocation not on record
2
Oskarshamn, SE
2
Edinburgh, GB
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Barcelona, ES
1
Paris, FR
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
Kew, GB
1
Tilburg, NL
1
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
1
Vitoria, ES
1
Salzburg, AT
1
US
1
Portland, US
1
San Sebastián, ES
1
53 institutions · 564 of 856 vouchered records shown · 289 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA13 detections
Where the DNA of Xanthoparmelia loxodes 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 found13
Studies independent surveys1
Countries3
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median14.2 °C 0.3–15.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter20.3 °C
Max temp (day)17.9 °C 2.90–20.1
Min temp (night)9.00 °C -3.60–12.4
Precipitation74.2 mm/mo 33.4–104
Air humidity60.8 % 52.9–64.3
Moisture balance17.8 mm/mo -61.9–41.2
Vapour deficit641 Pa 240–953
Wind speed2.60 m/s 2.00–5.20
Cloud cover44.3 % 38.3–52.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 9 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 Facility3 757 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI13 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics13 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗