Checklist of Plants of India

Aneura pinguis (L.) Dumort., Comment. Bot. 115. 1822.

Jungermannia pinguis L., Sp. Pl 1136. 1753.

Riccardia pinguis (L.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 683. 1821.

Aneura indica Steph ex Kashyap, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc 25: 280. 1917.

Riccardia indica (Steph. ex Kashyap) Pande & K.P.Srivast, J. Indian Bot. Soc. 37: 417. 1958.

India [AP: Talakona water falls (Sandhya Rani & al., 2014); AS: Barail WLS (Barbhuiya & S.K. Singh, 2012); HP: Dalhousie, Lahaul, Kyelong (Kashyap, 1929 as A. indica; D.K. Singh & S.K. Singh, 2015), GHNP (S.K. Singh & D.K. Singh, 2009; D.K. Singh & S.K. Singh, 2015); KA: Bangalore (R.S. Chopra, 1938a as A. indica); MH: Pune ‘Poona’ (Joshi & Biradar, 1984 as R. indica); ML: BSI Campus, Shillong (S.K. Singh, unpubl.); MP: Pachmarhi (V.P. Singh & Kaul, 2002); PJ: Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur (D.K. Singh & al., 2006b, c); SK: without specific locality (Long & Grolle, 1990; D.K. Singh & al., 2008a); TN: Palni Hills (R.S. Chopra, 1938a as A. indica), Coonoor, Bandishola, Kodaikanal (S.C. Srivastava & Udar, 1976), Kanyakumari, Maramalai (Daniels, 2010; Daniels & Daniel, 2013); UT: Sahastradhara (Kashyap, 1929 as A. indica), Dehradun, Mussoorie (S.K. Singh & D.K. Singh, 2007); WB: Darjeeling (S.C. Srivastava & Udar, 1976)], Bhutan (Long & Grolle, 1990), China (Piippo, 1990), Indonesia (Söderström & al., 2010), Japan (Yamada & Iwatsuki, 2006), Korea (Yamada & Choe, 1997), Nepal (Pradhan & Joshi, 2009), New Zealand (Glenny, 1998), Pakistan (Furuki & al., 1993), Russia (Konstantinova & al., 2009), Singapore (Piippo & al., 2002), Sri Lanka (Long & Rubasinghe, 2014), Taiwan (Wang & al., 2011), Thailand (Lai & al., 2008), Turkey (Kürschner & Erdağ, 2005), Africa (Wigginton, 2009), Europe (Söderström & al., 2007), North America (Stotler & CrandallStotler, 1977), South America (Yano, 1984) Note: Basha & al. (2015) recorded this species from Simhachalam hills in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh as Riccardia indica