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]

Cora rubrosanguinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)

References

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  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.