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Cora elephas

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

Cora elephas is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Robert Lücking, Bibiana Moncada, and Leidy Yasmín Vargas-Mendoza. The specific epithet elephas refers the "grey colour and elephant skin-like consistency" of the lichen. It occurs at elevations greater than 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, where it grows mostly on rocks, but sometimes with mosses and other lichens. Cora elephas is one of the largest species in genus Cora.[1]

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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 27732638.139-207&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007/s13225-016-0374-9&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27732638#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Lücking&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft.au=Forno, Manuela Dal&rft.au=Moncada, Bibiana&rft.au=Coca, Luis Fernando&rft.au=Vargas-Mendoza, Leidy Yasmín&rft.au=Aptroot, André&rft.au=Arias, Laura Juliana&rft.au=Besal, Betty&rft.au=Bungartz, Frank&rft.au=Cabrera-Amaya, Diego Mauricio&rft.au=Cáceres, Marcela E. S.&rft.au=Chaves, José Luis&rft.au=Eliasaro, Sionara&rft.au=Gutiérrez, Martha Cecilia&rft.au=Hernández Marin, Jesús E.&rft.au=de los Ángeles Herrera-Campos, María&rft.au=Holgado-Rojas, María E.&rft.au=Jonitz, Harald&rft.au=Kukwa, Martin&rft.au=Lucheta, Fabiane&rft.au=Madriñán, Santiago&rft.au=Marcelli, Marcelo Pinto&rft.au=de Azevedo Martins, Suzana Maria&rft.au=Mercado-Díaz, Joel A.&rft.au=Molina, Jorge Alberto&rft.au=Morales, Eduardo A.&rft.au=Nelson, Peter R.&rft.au=Nugra, Freddy&rft.au=Ortega, Francisco&rft.au=Paredes, Telma&rft.au=Patiño, Ayda Lucía&rft.au=Peláez-Pulido, Rouchi Nadine&rft.au=Pérez, Rosa Emilia Pérez&rft.au=Perlmutter, Gary B.&rft.au=Rivas-Plata, Eimy&rft.au=Robayo, Javier&rft.au=Rodríguez, Camilo&rft.au=Simijaca, Diego Fernando&rft.au=Soto-Medina, Edier&rft.au=Spielmann, Adriano Afonso&rft.au=Suárez-Corredor, Alejandra&rft.au=Torres, Jean-Marc&rft.au=Vargas, Carlos Alberto&rft.au=Yánez-Ayabaca, Alba&rft.au=Weerakoon, Gothamie&rft.au=Wilk, Karina&rft.au=Pacheco, Marcela Celis&rft.au=Diazgranados, Mauricio&rft.au=Brokamp, Grischa&rft.au=Borsch, Thomas&rft.au=Gillevet, Patrick M.&rft.au=Sikaroodi, Masoumeh&rft.au=Lawrey, James D.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cora elephas" class="Z3988">