Lichens growth on Sun Temple of Konark in Odisha, India- A curse or blessing

  • Kunja Bihari Satapathy Emeritus Professor of Botany, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
  • Sandeep Kumar Nayak Post Graduate Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Prashant Kumar Behera Post Graduate Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Rajesh Bajpai Post Graduate Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Dalip Kumar Upreti Post Graduate Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
DOI https://doi.org/10.21756/cab.v2i2.11119

Abstract

The present observation on the famous Sun Temple of Konark, Odisha for Lichen growth
revealed that a more than 500 different spots were found on main temple, small sculptures
erected within the temple premises and boundary walls. A total of 15 species belonging 14 genera
and 11 families were found growing on the sites surveyed. Ten lichen species tightly adhere to
the substrate forming crust (crustose lichen) and producing secondary metabolites were dominated
on almost all the sites while only four leafy (foliose lichen) species and one squamulose species
were recorded.
Keywords: Bio-deterioration, Crustose, Foliose, Konark, Lichen and Odisha

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