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In the past 30 years, the authors have made folk investigation of medical and edible lichens from the main regions of China and combined their research with related references according to the classification system of Tehler and Wedin (Nash III, 2008). A total of 126 species of Chinese medicinal and edible lichens, belonging to 43 genera and 16 families, are recorded in Illustrated Medicinal Lichens of China. Description of each species is based on the specimens deposited in the Lichen Herbarium of Kunming Institute of Botany (KUN-L).