Lepraria yunnaniana (Hue) Zahlbr.

Bajpai, Rajesh, Upreti, D. K. & Nayaka, Sanjeeva, 2018, The lichen genera Lepraria (Stereocaulaceae) and Leprocaulon (Leprocaulaceae) in India, Phytotaxa 356 (2), pp. 101-116 : 110-111

20. Lepraria yunnaniana (Hue) Zahlbr.

Thallus leprose, grey whitish, cottony; hypothallus black, thick; with powdery soredia; margin delimited; lobes absent, rarely indistinct; medulla rarely present, white; hypothallus exposed between soredia; soredia scattered, fine, 30–70 μm diam.; projecting hyphae small, rarely present; consoredia often present, 75–125 μm.

Chemistry: Divaricatic acid and nordivaricatic acid (trace). K−, C− or + pinkish, KC+pink, Pd−.

Ecology and Distribution: The species found growing over bark and mosses; and commonly found in South America, China, Africa, Australia. In India Singh & Sinha (2010), reported this species from Tamilnadu and Uttarakhand.

Upreti et al. (2003), reported earlier this species as L. nigrocincta from Tamilnadu and Uttarakhand.

Specimens examined: TAMILNADU: Madurai district, Shola near 9 th mile Kodai Canal Berijam road, alt 2500 m, on bark over mosses, Awasth DD & Foreau G 02-12-1959, 59-04211, UTTARAKHAND: Bagheshwar district , enroute to Khati to Dwali, on soil, 11-05-2007, Joshi S & Joshi Y 07-015739 ; Pithorgarh district, Lori forest area, alt 1600 m on bark, Pande HC, 16-09-1999, 09-065585 .