var. adglutinata India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand), Australia, Bhutan, East Africa, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan; Europe, North America. Cosmopolitan.
var. pyrithrocardia (Müll.Arg.) D.D.Awasthi, Comp. Macrolich. India, Nepal & Sri Lanka 197. 2007. Physcia adglutinatavar. pyrithrocardiaMüll.Arg., Flora 63: 278. 1880. Physcia elaeinaf. pyrithrocardia(Müll.Arg.) Thomson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 7: 30. 1963. India (Tamil Nadu) and U.S.A.