Cora garagoa

Cora garagoa is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Colombia, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Diego Fernando Simijaca, Bibiana Moncada, and Robert Lücking. The specific epithet garagoa refers to the type locality in Garagoa, the only place where the lichen is known to occur. It grows as an epiphyte in mountainous rainforests.[1]

Cora garagoa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Cora
Species:
C. garagoa
Binomial name
Cora garagoa
Simijaca, B.Moncada & Lücking (2016)

References

  1. Lücking, Robert; Forno, Manuela Dal; Moncada, Bibiana; Coca, Luis Fernando; Vargas-Mendoza, Leidy Yasmín; Aptroot, André; et al. (2016). "Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth's seventieth birthday". Fungal Diversity. 84 (1): 139–207. doi:10.1007/s13225-016-0374-9. S2CID 27732638.


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