Locality: Wake County, North Carolina (35.854140, -78.752750)

Abstract: A preliminary checklist of lichens and allied fungi collected in William B. Umstead State Park in central North Carolina is here presented, documenting 153 taxa in 76 genera from repeated forays in 2006-2007. Forty-six taxa are newly reported for the North Carolina Piedmont, of which 20 are newly reported for the state, including: Acarospora dispersa, Arthonia dryadum, Byssoloma subdiscordans, Candelariella reflexa, Chrysothrix xanthina, Fellhanera hybrida, F. minisinkorum, Leiorreuma explicans, Lepraria friabilis, Peltigera didactyla, Phlyctis petraea, Placynthiella dasea, Polysporina simplex, Rinodina oxydata, Strigula americana, Trapelia placodioides, Trapeliopsis gelatinosa and Usnea endochrysea. The lichenicolous fungi Dactylospora pertusariicola and Marchandiomyces corallinus were found on Pertusaria plittiana and Physcia americana, respectively. The significance of this baseline checklist for assessing environmental health within a fast growing metropolitan area is discussed.

Notes: updated checklist to include additional NCU vouchered taxa and annotations.