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Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach.

Evernia prunastri is the oakmoss of perfumery: a lichen of the Northern Hemisphere’s temperate forests.

Its extract carries atranol and chloroatranol, which EU law prohibits in cosmetics and IFRA’s Standard limits in the extract. No origin record is linked yet.

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Latin name
Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach.
documented

Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach.

GBIF-2 · GBIF Secretariat (2023) · read 2026-09-30

the GBIF record’s scientific name

confidence A

Common name
oakmoss
documented

(Parmeliaceae), also known as oakmoss, can be found in temperate mountainous forests across the Northern Hemisphere, including regions of France, Portugal, Spain, North America, and the greater part of Central Europe.

OAK-1 · Stojković et al. (2025). Chemical Profiling and In Vitro Evaluation of Bioactive Properties of Evernia prunastri Extract: Implications for Therapeutic Applications · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Family
Parmeliaceae
documented

Parmeliaceae

GBIF-2 · GBIF Secretariat (2023) · read 2026-09-30

the GBIF record’s family

confidence A

Part used
the lichen itself
perfumery convention

the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source

no filed source names the part; the extract is of the whole lichen by the trade’s convention

confidence C

Cultivars
not on record
not on record

not applicable to a lichen; none on record

Wikidata
Q904074
documented

P225 taxon name: Evernia prunastri

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item’s taxon name (P225) is “Evernia prunastri”, the record’s botanical name without its author

confidence A

Odeuropa
EOKG concept
documented

{"concept":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/olfactory-objects/74","relation":"owl:sameAs","via":"Q904074","label":"Oakmoss","scheme":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/olfactory-objects"}

ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R · read 2026-09-30

the EOKG concept “Oakmoss” states owl:sameAs Q904074

confidence A

Origins on record
    Materials

    Sources

    1. GBIF-2 · GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.15468/39omei · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
    2. OAK-1 · Stojković D, et al. Chemical Profiling and In Vitro Evaluation of Bioactive Properties of Evernia prunastri Extract: Implications for Therapeutic Applications. Plants (Basel). 2025;14(4):583. doi.org/10.3390/plants14040583 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
    3. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
    4. ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R. European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG), Odeuropa project. Zenodo, 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10709703. SPARQL endpoint https://data.odeuropa.eu/repositories/odeuropa, read 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10709703 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0

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    this record as data: /data/botanical/evernia-prunastri.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A