Bunodophoron awasthii, a new lichen species from India

Abstract

Bunodophoron awasthii, a new lichen species is described from the Eastern Himalaya, India.
It is characterized by the solid, erect, non-isidiate, crowded, richly branched and anastomosing
thallus with mostly ± flattened main branches and subterete to terete lateral branches, terminal
to subterminal apothecia, hyaline to brownish grey, globose, 6.3–9.4 μm diam. ascospores,
sphaerosphorin and stictic acid complex as lichen substances.