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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

"scientificName": "Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach."

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

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 D, et al · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Family
Parmeliaceae
documented

"family": "Parmeliaceae"

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

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

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 (the dataset’s licence field); the JSON responses are filed, pretty-printed, with this attribution
    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. EU-2017-1410 · Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1410 of 2 August 2017 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. OJ L 202, 3.8.2017, p. 1. eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/1410/oj · read 2026-09-30 · EU legislation; reuse terms not re-read (UNVERIFIED); quoted

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    this record as data: /data/botanical/evernia-prunastri.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A