Dharani Dhar Awasthi

Dharani Dhar Awasthi (1922 – 2011-08-21), lichenologist of India

IPNI standard form: D.D.Awasthi

Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

Honored with an Acharius Medal in 1992

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 43 taxon names authored by Dharani Dhar Awasthi

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Awasthi, D.D. 1965. Catalogue of the lichens from India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 17: 1–137. RLL List # 56 / Rec.# 1289 – Recent Literature on Lichens RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. & Agarwal, M.R. 1968. A new species of Mycoblastus from India. Current Science 37(3): 84–85. JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1973. On the species of Anaptychia and Heterodermia from India and Nepal. Geophytology: A Journal of Palaeobotany and Allied Sciences 3(1): 113–116. The Palaeobotanical Society (PDF) Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1975. A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Dirinaria. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 2, J. Cramer, Lehre. 108 pp.   (RLL List # 93-3 / Rec. # 1294 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1976. Lichen genus Parmelia in India. I. Subgenera Parmelia and Amphigymnia. Biological Memoirs [Lucknow] 1(1–2), Series 1 (Lichenology): 155–229. Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. & Singh, S.R. 1978. The lichen flora in the environs of Gangotri and Gomukh, India. 1–The macrolichens. Indian Journal of Forestry 1(2): 138–146, pl. [1] (4 figs). RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1982. Lichen Genus Cetraria in India and Nepal. The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 24(1–4): 1–27. RLL List # 124-9 / Rec.# 1303 – Recent Literature on Lichens NELUMBO RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Joshi, M. & Awasthi, D.D. 1982. The lichen family Stictaceae in India and Nepal. Biological Memoirs 7(2): 165–190. RLL List # 124-52 / Rec.# 9568 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 
• Singh, S.R. & Awasthi, D.D. 1989. Lichen genus Diplotomma from India and Nepal. Geophytology 19(2): 173–181. RLL List # 152 / Rec.# 17381 – Recent Literature on Lichens The Palaeobotanical Society Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. & Srivastava, P. 1993. New Species of Pertusaria (Lichenized Fungi) from India. The Bryologist 96(2): 210–215. DOI: 10.2307/3243803 . RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 2000. Lichenology in Indian Subcontinent: A Supplement to "A Handbook of Lichens".: 1–124. RLL List # 182 / Rec.# 21774 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 2007. A Compendium of the Macrolichens from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.: 1–580. RLL List # 211 / Rec.# 29848 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 

Links

• Biography at lichenolgy.org
• Singh, K.P. 2013: A tribute to Dharni Dhar Awasthi (1922–2011). The Lichenologist 45: 1–2. (doi: 10.1017/S0024282912000606)