New Australian and Australian state lichen and lichenicolous lichen reports

Based on recent acquisitions of the Australian National Herbarium since 198 2, mainly the collections of J. A. Elix and H. Streimann, new distribution data are presented for 162 species. This includes 31 species new to Austral ia: Acarospora reagens, Collema fragrans, Cyphelium australe, Dictyonema li gulatum, Dimerella pined, Diploschistes farinosus, D. gyrophoricus, Dirinar ia complicata, Heterodermia isidiophora, Hyperphyscia pruinosa, Megalospora atrorubicans ssp. atrorubicans, Myriotrema bahianum, M. compunctum, M. ter ebratulum, Ocellularia aurata, O. berkeleyana, Ochrolechia africana, Opegra pha filicina, 0. phylloporinae, Peltula marginata, Physcia dimidiata, Porin a sphaerocephala, Porpidia cinereoatra, Pyrenula corticata, Pyxine cylindri ca, Thelotrema platysporum, Thyrea confusa, Trapelia involuta, Trichotheliu m triseptatum, Trypethelium aeneum, Umbilicaria nylanderiana. Most of these are tropical taxa, found in Queensland. The other species are newly record ed for one or more Australian states.