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Cora yukiboa

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

Cora yukiboa is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Puerto Rico, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Joel Mercado-Díaz, Bibiana Moncada, and Robert Lücking The specific epithet yukiboa refers to Yukibo, the Taíno chief of the Daguao village where the type locality is. The lichen is found in summit forests of El Toro peak in the El Yunque National Forest, at an elevation of 1,074 m (3,524 ft). Here it grows as an epiphyte on shrubs.[1]

References

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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.