First Record of Umbilicaria cylindrica (Umbilicariaceae) from Nandi Kund, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India

Environment and Ecology 2026 Open access

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Authors: Nitin Kant Prabhakar, Sumit Kumar, Bhaskar ., Manali Kaintura, DR. SANJEEVA NAYAKA, J. P. Mehta, M. P. S. Arya
DOI: 10.60151/envec/zoqy1211
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Abstract

This paper reports Umbilicaria cylindrica (Umbilicariaceae) as a new distributional record for Uttarakhand, India. The species was collected from Nandi Kund, a high-altitude sacred lake in the Madhyamaheshwar Valley, located within Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, at an altitude of 4800 m a.s.l. The discovery extends the known Indian distribution of U. cylindrica, previously reported from Sikkim and West Bengal, highlighting the high potential for documenting unrecorded lichen taxa in high-altitude Himalayan ecosystems.

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Lichen and fungal ecology Building materials and conservation Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research

Publication details

Journal / source
Environment and Ecology
Publisher
MKK Publication
Volume
44
Issue
1
Pages
57–60
Publication date
1 February 2026