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    Cora rubrosanguinea

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of lichen

    Cora rubrosanguinea
    Scientific classification edit
    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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