Rusavskia indica

Rusavskia indica is a species of both corticolous (bark-dwelling) and saxicolous (rock-dwelling) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.

[1] Found in India, it was formally described as a new species in 2017 by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk and Dalip Kumar Upreti.

The type specimens were collected in Jammu-Kashmir.

[2] The lichen has short and narrow lobes and funnel-like isidia that sometimes break off and leave bare spots on the substrate.

[2] In addition to the type locality, Rusavskia indica has been recorded from the Andaman Islands, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.