Biology:Cora rubrosanguinea

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Short description: Species of lichen

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

Cora rubrosanguinea is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Ecuador, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Freddy Nugra, Bibiana Moncada, and Robert Lücking The specific epithet rubrosanguinea refers to the reddish pigment that exudes from rewetted herbarium material. The lichen is found in the northern Andes of Ecuador, where it grows on the ground or over rocks with bryophytes.[1]

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. 

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