Cora auriculeslia
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| Cora auriculeslia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Genus: | Cora |
| Species: | C. auriculeslia |
| Binomial name | |
| Cora auriculeslia B.Moncada, Yánez-Ayabaca & Lücking (2016) | |
Cora auriculeslia is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Bibiana Moncada, Alba Yánez-Ayabaca, and Robert Lücking. The specific epithet auriculeslia alludes to the ear-shaped lobes of the lichen, and adds the second name of the mycologist David Leslie Hawksworth. It is known to occur only from the type locality near Quito in Ecuador, where it grows on the ground in the shade.
Cora auriculeslia is a basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae (order Agaricales).[1] It was described in 2016 by Robert Lücking, Bibiana Moncada, and Dayvid Yánez-Ayabaca from material collected in the páramo of La Virgen, near Papallacta, Ecuador. The epithet combines a reference to the lichen's ear-shaped lobes (Latin auricula, 'little ear') with David Hawksworth's second forename, Leslie. Molecular data from the internal transcribed spacer region show that C. auriculeslia is the closest known relative of C. squamiformis, together forming a clade that also includes C. caliginosa. Despite this kinship, the Ecuadorian taxon differs consistently in its lighter olive-grey pigmentation, thinner margins, and mesic páramo ecology.[2]