Checklist of Plants of India

Xanthoria sorediata (Vain.) Poelt, Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 2: 29. 1954; D. Awasthi, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Pl. Sci. 96(3): 230. 1986 & Comp. Macrolich. India, Nepal & Sri Lanka : 536. 2007.

Lecanora elegans var. sorediata  Vain., Medd. Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 6: 143. 1881.

Caloplaca sorediata (Vain.) Du Rietz, Svensk. Bot. Tidskr. 477. 1916.

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

India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim and Uttarakhand); widely distributed in temperate alpine regions of Europe.