Biology:Cora elephas
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Short description: Species of lichen
| Cora elephas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Fungi |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Basidiomycota |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Agaricomycetes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Agaricales |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Cora |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">C. elephas |
| Binomial name | |
| Cora elephas Lücking, B.Moncada & L.Y.Vargas (2016)
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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]
References
- ↑ 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 ☰ Q107589623 entry
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