''Cora canari'' 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 ...

. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Freddy Nugra, Manuela Dal Forno, 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

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''canari'' refers to the Cañari people of

pre-Incan This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dat ...

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 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 trunks and branches.

References

canari Canari may refer to: *Canari, Haute-Corse, a commune in France * River Canari, in Dominica *Cañari, an ethnic group in Ecuador See also *Canari noir, a red wine grape * Canaris (disambiguation) *Canary (disambiguation) Canary originally referre ...

Lichen species Lichens described in 2016 Lichens of Ecuador Taxa named by Robert Lücking Basidiolichens Taxa named by Manuela Dal-Forno {{Hygrophoraceae-stub