Type Specimens Held in the Fungal, Lichen, and Myxomycete Collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU)

Daniel J. Meyers^1,*, Henry Van T. Cotter¹, Gary B. Perlmutter¹, Meriel T. Goodwin¹, and Carol Ann McCormick¹

¹University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280. *Corresponding author.

Southeastern Naturalist, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2024): 245–258

First published early online: 26 June 2024

Abstract
The Fungal, Lichen, and Myxomycete Collections of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) contain 952 type specimens, representing 607 names, which, based on current taxonomy and nomenclature, amount to 596 unique taxa. This wealth of type specimens is a legacy of the taxonomic research on fungi conducted by William C. Coker, Alma Holland Beers, John N. Couch, and other UNC mycologists in the first half of the 20th century. This inventory is a compilation of these types plus specimens for invalidly published designations that were intended as types by the mycologists who worked on these specimens. Also included are original material specimens intended as types for taxa in invalid publications, which were not included in the publications by subsequent authors validating the taxa. Fungal groups particularly well represented in the types held at NCU are boletes, clavarioid fungi, gasteroid fungi, hydnoid fungi, and septobasidia. A lectotype is designated for Clavaria atroumbrina. Since 2014, more than 1000 collections including >100 types have been loaned by NCU to mycologists at institutions around the world..

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