A checklist of the fungi recorded from Serra da Jibóia, Bahia state, Brazil. 33 p.

Serra da Jibóia is one of the priority areas for the conservation of biodiversity located in the semiarid Caatinga biome of Northeast Brazil. Two hundred and fifty-nine species of fungi (mitosporic and meiosporic ascomycetes and basidiomycetes) were reported from Serra da Jibóia and are presented here. These species are distributed in 155 genera among which Dictyochaeta was the most highly represented genus with nine species. Inventory of the Serra da Jibóia region has thus far contributed to the description of one new genus and seven new species to science; six species are considered rare while 121 are new records of fungi. These data were based on literature records.