Checklist of Plants of India

Xanthoria elegans (Link) Th.Fr., Lich. Arct. 69. 1860; D. Awasthi, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Pl. Sci. 96(3): 229. 1986 & Comp. Macrolich. India, Nepal & Sri Lanka : 535. 2007.

Lichen elegans Link, Ann. Naturgesch. 1: 37. 1791.

Parmelia elegans var. discreta  Schaer., Enum. Crit. Lich. Europ. 52. 1850.

Caloplaca elegans var. discreta  (Schaer.) Körb., Parerga Lichenol. 48. 1859.

Caloplaca elegans (Link) Th.Fr., Lichenogr. Scand. 1: 168. 1871.

Amphiloma elegans var. laxum  Müll.Arg., Flora 67: 465. 1884.

Caloplaca elegans var. laxa   (Müll.Arg.) Jatta, Nouvo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 9: 476. 1902.

Rusavskia elegans (Link) S.Kondr. & Kärnefelt, Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn. 60(4): 434. 2003.

India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim and Uttarakhand), Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Pakistan; widely distributed in Europe, North America, Arctics, southern hemisphere up to Antarctica. Bipolar.