Cora casanarensis is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Colombia, it was formally described as a new species in 2014 by Leidy Yasmín Vargas, Bibiana Moncada, and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected in Finca El Paraiso (Vereda Centro Sur, Chámeza) at an altitude of 1,400 m (4,600 ft). The lichen is only known to occur at the type locality, where it grows on rocks, often associated with bryophytes and with lichens from genus Hypotrachyna. The specific epithet refers to Casanare, the central eastern Colombian department that contains the type locality. Phylogenetically, the closest species to Cora casanarensis is C. strigosa, found in Peru.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Genus: | Cora |
| Species: | C. casanarensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Cora casanarensis L.Vargas, Moncada & Lücking (2014)
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References
edit- ^ Vargas, Leidy Yasmín; Moncada, Bibiana; Lücking, Robert (2014). "Five new species of Cora and Dictyonema (Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from Colombia: chipping away at cataloging hundreds of unrecognized taxa". The Bryologist. 117 (4): 368–378. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-117.4.368. S2CID 83692191.