Showing all 4 books
The consolidated account of 247 species of foliicolous lichens of 38 genera by Santesson (1952) imparted an impetus to several lichenologists, as per the bibliography, in the years that followed, to vigorously continue the studies on them to the extent that in about six decades the number of the foliicolous lichen species known from the world rose to a little less then four times, and that of genera to more than two times. This apparently had also been ...
Lichenological studies have been prevalent in Europe and North America for over two centuries, and consequently hand-books or text books dealing with basic information on lichens have frequently been published in English and different European languages. Most of them have usually been beyond the reach of average Indian student or were somewhat unsuited as they lacked examples of Indian lichens. Lichenological studies in India do not go beyond about five decades ...
This volume of "Compendium of Macrolichens from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka" incorporates consolidated information in an alphabetical order of 122 genera and their 874 species and few varieties of Macrolichens reported from the area under consideration, with a view to help the new workers of Lichenology to identify their collections as the earlier literature is much dispersed and usually not available at many Indian institutions. Sufficient diagnostic ...