Biology:Cora canari
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Genus: | Cora |
| Species: | C. canari
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| Binomial name | |
| Cora canari Nugra, Dal-Forno & Lücking (2016)
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Cora canari is a rare species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Freddy Nugra, Manuela Dal Forno, and Robert Lücking. The specific epithet canari refers to the Cañari people of pre-Incan Ecuador. The lichen is only known to occur at the type locality in the Morona-Santiago Province of Ecuador, where it grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks and branches. It forms small rosettes up to 5 cm across with emerald-green to blue-green [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] that have wavy surfaces and thin, rolled-in grey margins.
Taxonomy
Cora canari is a basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae (order Agaricales).[1] It was described in 2016 by Lizeth Nugra, Manuela Dal Forno, and Robert Lücking from material collected in the lower montane rain-forest of Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador. The epithet commemorates the Cañari—one of Ecuador's pre-Incan indigenous nations. ITS sequences place C. canari in a clade that also includes the Colombian species C. setosa and C. undulata and two Galápagos endemics, rather than the superficially similar terrestrial taxa C. hafecesweorthensis and C. imi.[2]
Description
The thallus of Cora canari is epiphytic and foliose, forming rosettes up to 5 cm across on bark. It comprises three to five semicircular [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]], 1–2 cm wide and 0.7–1.5 cm long, that are unbranched or only sparsely branched and lack radial sutures. Fresh lobes are aeruginous- to emerald-green, becoming green-grey in the herbarium; the thin, rolled-in ([[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]]) margins are grey and [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]]. The upper surface is [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] (wavy) when moist and undulate-[[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] (wavy and wrinkled) on drying, with no concentric colour bands. The lower face does not have a [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] (it is[[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]]) and exposes a white-grey, felty-arachnoid medulla.[2]
In section the thallus is 200–250 micrometres (μm) thick. A diffusely viaduct-shaped upper cortex, 20–30 μm deep, overlies a 30–70 μm band of [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] hyphae. The [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] is 40–70 μm thick and aeruginous throughout; the medulla is 40–70 μm, hydrophobic, and lacks clamp connections or [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]] hyphae. No hymenophore has been observed, and thin-layer chromatography has detected no secondary metabolites.[2]
Habitat and distribution
Cora canari is known only from its type locality at 1,581 m elevation near the Sopladora Hydroelectric Project, Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador. It inhabits moist lower montane rain-forest, growing epiphytically on trunks and branches among bryophyte mats and other lichens, including Coccocarpia species. The lichen's undulate, hydrophobic lobes may facilitate rapid drainage and gas exchange in the consistently humid conditions of this Andean cloud forest.[2]
References
- ↑ "Cora canari Nugra, Dal-Forno & Lücking". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/Y96Q.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q107589581 entry
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