KAVAKA50: 26-33(2018) Further contributions to the documentation of lichenicolous fungi from India Yogesh Joshi1* , Manish Tripathi 1 , Kapil Bisht 1 , Shashi Upadhyay 1 , Vishal Kumar 1 ,Neha Pal 1 ,Ankita Gaira 1 , Sugandha Pant1 , Kamal S. Rawat 1 , Sunita Bisht, Rajesh Bajpai 2 and Josef P.Halda 3 1Lichenology Laboratory, Department of Botany, S.S.J. Campus, Kumaun University, Almora - 263601, Uttarakhand, India 2Lichenology laboratory, CSIR-National BotanicalResearch Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow - 226001, Uttar Pradesh 3Muzeum a galerie Orlických hor,Jiráskova 2, 516 01 Rychnov n. Kn., Czech Republic *Corresponding author email:
[email protected] (Submitted on December 21, 2017;Accepted on May 15, 2018) ABSTRACT Fifty two rarely collected or otherwise interesting species of lichenicolous fungi are presented, of which three species are described as new to science:Didymocyrtis rhizoplacae (on Rhizoplacachrysoleuca from Uttarakhand), Plectocarponparmeliarum (on Parmelia meiophora from Uttarakhand) andPyrenidium hypotrachynae (on Hypotrachyna coorgiana from Kerala), while 49 species are additions to the known lichenicolous mycobiota of India. Keywords: lichens, lichenicolous fungi, lichenicolous lichens, new records, taxonomy. INTRODUCTION after a KOH pre-treatment [K/I]. Asci and ascospore measurements were made in water and are followed by the Lichenicolous fungi have received increasing attention number of measurements (n). within the last decades, and the number of known species has grown considerably. However, the distribution and diversity TAXONOMY of these fungi in India are poorly known, and so far 115 1. Didymocyrtis rhizoplacae Y.Joshi & K. Bisht sp. nov. species are known fromthis country (Joshiet al ., 2016 a, b, c, d; Fig.1.a-d Joshiet al ., 2017 a, b; Singh et al ., 2017), excluding Opegrapha tenuior Stirt.