Lichens of the Western Ghats
182 lichens on the India list have a GBIF record placed in the Western Ghats, 11 endemic to India.
A species is in a region when a GBIF record of it is placed there (the biogeographic zones of the Wildlife Institute of India). Threatened: IUCN Red List Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. List of the week of 2026-11-09.
Lichens of the Western Ghats endemic to India (11)
- Chrysothrix chlorina Sulphur Dust Lichen
- Diorygma karnatakense
- Graphina streblocarpa
- Graphina subserpentina
- Hemithecium nakanishianum
- Hypotrachyna costaricensis
- Hypotrachyna nepalensis
- Parmelia sulcata shield lichen
- Parmotrema arnoldii Arnold's powdered-ruffle
- Parmotrema indicum
- Phlyctis karnatakana
All lichens of the Western Ghats on the list (182)
- Allographa acharii
- Allographa consanguinea
- Allographa effusosoredica
- Allographa laubertiana
- Allographa pachygrapha
- Bulbothrix isidiza bulbothrix lichen
- Canoparmelia texana Texas Shield Lichen
- Chapsa halei
- Chapsa laemensis
- Chapsa scabiomarginata
- Chiodecton leptosporum
- Chrysothrix chlorina Sulphur Dust Lichen
- Clathroporina mastoidea
- Coccocarpia palmicola Salted Shell Lichen
- Cytosporella juncicola
- Diorygma junghuhnii
- Diorygma karnatakense
- Diorygma megasporum
- Diorygma tuberculosum
- Dirinaria applanata Dirinaria Lichen
- Ephebe lanata Waterside Rockshag Lichen
- Erioderma meiocarpum
- Eriospora leucostoma
- Eschatogonia marivelensis
- Eschatogonia triptophyllina
- Fissurina cingalina
- Fissurina dumastii
- Fissurina subcomparimuralis
- Flavoparmelia caperata common greenshield lichen
- Graphina colliculosa
- Graphina fissofurcata
- Graphina marcescens
- Graphina parilis
- Graphina streblocarpa
- Graphina subserpentina
- Graphis aphaneomicrospora
- Graphis conferta
- Graphis epiphloea
- Graphis handelii
- Graphis implicata
- Graphis japonica
- Graphis leptoclada
- Graphis persulcata
- Graphis submarginata
- Haematomma rufidulum
- Hemithecium nakanishianum
- Hemithecium oshioi
- Heppsora bullata
- Heppsora indica
- Heterodermia diademata shield lichen
- Heterodermia domingensis
- Heterodermia isidiophora
- Heterodermia japonica
- Heterodermia lepidota
- Heterodermia obscurata Obscure Shield Lichen
- Hypogymnia pseudobitteriana
- Hypotrachyna cirrhata
- Hypotrachyna costaricensis
- Hypotrachyna crenata
- Hypotrachyna endochlora
- Hypotrachyna exsecta
- Hypotrachyna formosana
- Hypotrachyna imbricatula hypotrachyna lichen
- Hypotrachyna immaculata
- Hypotrachyna infirma
- Hypotrachyna livida Clingy Square Britches
- Hypotrachyna neodissecta
- Hypotrachyna nepalensis
- Hypotrachyna orientalis
- Hypotrachyna osseoalba Wake Turbulence
- Hypotrachyna rockii Rock's hypotrachyna lichen
- Hypotrachyna vexans
- Klauskalbia flabellata
- Leioderma sorediatum Treepelt Lichen
- Leptogium burnetiae Long-bearded Jellyskin Lichen
- Leptogium cochleatum
- Leucodecton fissurinum
- Leucodermia boryi
- Leucodermia leucomelos
- Malmidea duplomarginata
- Megalospora tuberculosa megalospora lichen
- Menegazzia terebrata Port-hole Lichen
- Myelochroa aurulenta Powdery Axil-bristle Lichen
- Myelochroa denegans
- Myelochroa xantholepis
- Myriotrema clandestinum
- Myriotrema microporum myriotrema lichen
- Myriotrema rugiferum
- Myriotrema subconforme
- Myriotrema terebratulum myriotrema lichen
- Nephroma helveticum Fringed Kidney Lichen
- Notoparmelia erumpens
- Ocellularia allospora
- Ocellularia arecae
- Ocellularia eumorpha
- Ocellularia inturgescens
- Ocellularia keralensis
- Ocellularia masonhalei
- Ocellularia papillata
- Ocellularia subkeralensis
- Ocellularia subsimilis
- Ocellularia terebrata
- Ostropomyces pruinosellus
- Oxneriopsis bassiae
- Parakarstenia phyllostachydis
- Parmelia sulcata shield lichen
- Parmelinella simplicior
- Parmelinella wallichiana
- Parmelinopsis minarum parmelinopsis
- Parmotrema arnoldii Arnold's powdered-ruffle
- Parmotrema austrosinense Pretty Ruffle
- Parmotrema cooperi
- Parmotrema crinitum Salted Ruffle Lichen
- Parmotrema cristiferum parmotrema lichen
- Parmotrema gardneri
- Parmotrema indicum
- Parmotrema pseudonilgherrense
- Parmotrema reticulatum Black Sheet Lichen
- Parmotrema sancti-angeli
- Parmotrema stuppeum Powder-Edged Ruffle Lichen
- Parmotrema subsumptum
- Parmotrema subtinctorium
- Parmotrema thomsonii
- Parmotrema tinctorum Old Gray Ruffles
- Phaeographis inusta phaeographis
- Phaeographis lecanographa
- Phaeophyscia endococcinodes Red-cored Starburst Shadow Lichen
- Phaeophyscia hispidula Whiskered Shadow Lichen
- Phlyctis karnatakana
- Physcia alba
- Physcia integrata
- Physcia sorediosa Black-bottomed Rosette
- Physciella nigricans
- Platythecium dimorphodes
- Platythecium intortulum
- Porina africana
- Porina eminentior
- Pseudochapsa phlyctidioides
- Pseudochapsa subpatens
- Pseudocyphellaria argyracea
- Pseudocyphellaria aurata Green specklebelly lichen
- Pseudoparmelia ecaperata
- Punctelia rudecta rough speckled shield lichen
- Pyxine cognata
- Pyxine sorediata Spicy Mustard-rosette
- Ramalina fraxinea Cartilage Lichen
- Ramalina inflata
- Reimnitzia santensis
- Remototrachyna awasthii
- Remototrachyna dodapetta
- Remototrachyna kingii
- Rhizoplaca novomexicana
- Roccella montagnei Southern Beach Lichen
- Sanguinotrema wightii Garnet-studded Volcano
- Sarcographa subtricosa
- Solenopsora rhizomorpha
- Stegobolus auberianus
- Stictospora oleae
- Teloschistes flavicans Golden Hair-lichen
- Thecaria quassiicola
- Thelotrema adjectum barnacle lichen
- Thelotrema allosporoides
- Thelotrema berkeleyanum
- Thelotrema defossum
- Thelotrema indicum
- Thelotrema lepademersum
- Thelotrema lepadinum Bark Barnacles
- Thelotrema minarum
- Thelotrema monosporum
- Thelotrema porinoides
- Thelotrema pseudosubtile
- Thelotrema similans
- Usnea flexilis
- Usnea ghattensis
- Usnea luridorufa
- Usnea lutea
- Usnea rigidula
- Usnea stigmatoides
- Wirthiotrema glaucopallens
- Wirthiotrema trypaneoides
- Xanthoparmelia saxeti
- Zwackhia bonplandii
Lichens elsewhere
India · Andaman and Nicobar · Andhra Pradesh · Arunachal Pradesh · Assam · Bihar · Chhattisgarh · Delhi · Goa · Haryana · Himachal Pradesh · Jammu and Kashmir · Jharkhand · Karnataka · Kerala · Ladakh · Madhya Pradesh · Maharashtra · Manipur · Meghalaya · Nagaland · Odisha · Puducherry · Punjab · Rajasthan · Sikkim · Tamil Nadu · Telangana · Uttar Pradesh · Uttarakhand · West Bengal · Trans-Himalaya · Himalaya · Semi-Arid · Deccan Peninsula · Gangetic Plain · Coasts · North-East · Islands
Other species of the Western Ghats
Birds · Large mammals · Bats · Rodents, shrews and hares · Whales, dolphins and other mammals · Reptiles · Amphibians · Fish · Butterflies · Moths · Dragonflies and damselflies · Beetles · Bees, wasps and ants · Flies · True bugs · Other insects · Spiders and other arachnids · Molluscs · Crabs, shrimps and kin · Orchids · Grasses and sedges · Ferns and lycophytes · Other flowering plants and conifers · Mosses and liverworts · Fungi · Algae and diatoms · Other species