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PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION Welcome to the NCU Lichen Page. The lichen collection at the University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU) began with specimens collected by William Chambers Coker, Henry Roland Totten, Alexander W. Evans, Paul O. Schallert and Fred W. Gray, who collected throughout North Carolina in the early half of the 20^th century. During this period the Herbarium also received lichen specimens from the other institutions, representing areas such as California, the Bahamas and New England. A partial duplicate set from the Ungava Arctic Expedition in 1953 is also housed here, collected by Francis Harper in the Ungava peninsula of Labrador / Quebec, Canada. The lichen collection remained dormant from about 1965-2005 when Gary Perlmutter, a new student of the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Studies certificate program, joined as an Herbarium Associate to build an inventory of the lichen biota of the North Carolina Piedmont as his Final Project. In so doing he assumed curatorial responsibilities of the collection, and added to it with his project surveys. This project was completed with Perlmutter’s graduation from the program in 2010, reporting a biota of 950 species in North Carolina with 340 of those occurring in the Piedmont of the state. The lichen collection of the UNC Herbarium remains active as collection, curation and exchange continues. Currently the Herbarium houses about 3500 lichen specimens, with over 2900 databased as of 2011. In 2010 the collection “went live” with the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria. Learn about the lichen biodiversity of North Carolina and surrounding areas by clicking on the links on the left side of this page. For recent research by Gary Perlmutter on lichens of Piedmont communities in North Carolina, see “Lichens, Lichenicolous Fungi, and Allied Fungi of Turnipseed WakeNature Preserve, North Carolina, USA” Curriculum North Carolina UNC In Ecology Botanical Garden Biology Department University of North Carolina Herbarium CB# 3280, Coker Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280 phone: (919) 962-6931 fax: (919) 962-6930 email: mccormickATSIGNunc.edu   Last Updated: 7 July 2011