Frullania gaudichaudii (Nees & Mont.) Nees & Mont. in Gottsche & al., Syn. Hepat. 435. 1845 var. gaudichaudii.
Distribution: India [AN: Andman (Stephani, 1894 as F. mannii), Port Blair (Nath & A.K. Asthana, 1998), Andaman Is. (Joshi, 2001); KL: without specific locality (Manju & al., 2008); TN: Chennai ‘Madras’ (Mitten as F. recurvata), Kanyakumari, Sea feild (Daniels & Daniel, 2008a as F. ceylanica); UT: Garhwal (Kashyap & R.S. Chopra, 1932 as F. gracillima); WB: Darjeeling (Hattori, 1966)], China (Piippo, 1990), Fiji (Söderström & al., 2011), Indonesia (Hattori, 1975c; Söderström & al., 2010), Japan (Yamada & Iwatsuki, 2006), Malaysia (ChuahPetiot, 2011), New Caledonia (Thouvenot & al., 2011), Papua New Guinea (Grolle & Piippo, 1984), Philippines (Tan & Engel, 1986), Sri Lanka (Hattori, 1975b as F. ceylanica; Onraedt, 1981; Long & Rubasinghe, 2014), Taiwan (Wang & al., 2011), Thailand (Lai & al., 2008), Australia (McCarthy, 2006), South America (Yano, 1984). Note: This species was reported from Sikkim by Hattori (1966) without any specific locality. This report probably belongs to Darjeeling district of West Bengal.
