''Cora buapana'' is a species of basidiolichen in the family

Hygrophoraceae The Hygrophoraceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Originally conceived as containing white-spored, thick-gilled agarics (gilled mushrooms), including ''Hygrophorus'' and ''Hygrocybe'' species (the waxcaps or waxy caps), DNA evide ...

. Found in Mexico, it was formally described as a new species in 2019 by Bibiana Moncada, Rosa Emilia Pérez-Pérez, and

Robert Lücking Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He is a leading expert on foliicolous lichens–lichens that live on leaves. Life and career Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the Univer ...

. The type specimen was collected from a

cloud forest A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...

on the Cerro Las Antenas (

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, Oaxaca) at an altitude of . The

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pays tribute to the

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(BUAP), which is the oldest and largest university in the state of Puebla. ''Cora buapana'' is only known to occur in a small region of Oaxaca, where it grows as an

epiphyte An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phoroph ...

on tree and shrub branches, typically over and around mosses and liverworts. It is found in cloud forests at an altitude range between . '' Cora benitoana'' is a sympatic species.

References

buapana Lichen species Lichens described in 2019 Lichens of Mexico Taxa named by Robert Lücking Basidiolichens {{Hygrophoraceae-stub