Dharani Dhar Awasthi

Dharani Dhar Awasthi (1922 – 2011-08-21), lichenologist of India

Standard IPNI form: D.D.Awasthi

Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

Honored with an Acharius Medal in 1992

• 11taxon names authored by Dharani Dhar Awasthi

plus:

Heterodermia albidiflava (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia angustiloba (Mull. Arg.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia awasthii (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia coronata (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia diademata (Taylor) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia dissecta (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia flabellata (Fée) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia himalayensis (D.D. Awasthi) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia hypocaesia (Yasuda) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia incana (Stirt.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia indica (H. Magn.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia isidiophora (Nyl.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia neoleucomelaena (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia pellucida (D.D. Awasthi) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia podocarpa (Bél.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia punctifera (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia rubescens (D.D. Awasthi) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

Heterodermia togashii (Kurok.) D.D. Awasthi, 1973

• Awasthi, D.D. & Agarwal, M.R. 1968. A new species of Mycoblastus from India. Current Science 37(3): 84–85. JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1973. On the species of Anaptychia and Heterodermia from India and Nepal. Geophytology 3(1): 113–116.   RLL List # 88 / Rec.# 1292 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1975. A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Dirinaria. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 2, J. Cramer, Lehre. 108 pp.   (RLL List # 93-3 / Rec. # 1294 - Recent Literature on Lichens)Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1976. Lichen genus Parmelia in India. I. Subgenera Parmelia and Amphigymnia. Biological Memoirs [Lucknow] 1(1–2), Series 1 (Lichenology): 155–229. Reference page. 
• Awasthi, D.D. 1982. Lichen Genus Cetraria in India and Nepal. The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 24(1–4): 1–27. RLL List # 124-9 / Rec.# 1303 – Recent Literature on Lichens NELUMBO RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Joshi, M. & Awasthi, D.D. 1982. The lichen family Stictaceae in India and Nepal. Biological Memoirs 7(2): 165–190. RLL List # 124-52 / Rec.# 9568 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 

• Biography at lichenolgy.org
• Singh, K.P. 2013: A tribute to Dharni Dhar Awasthi (1922–2011). The Lichenologist 45: 1–2. (doi:10.1017/S0024282912000606)