Cora rothesiorum is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Colombia, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Bibiana Moncada, Santiago Madriñán, and Robert Lücking. The specific epithet rothesiorum refers to the Earl of Rothes, which was the origin of the name Leslie, and an indirect tribute to mycologist David Leslie Hawksworth. The lichen occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, close to Bogota, where it grows as an epiphyte of páramo shrubs in shaded places. Cora rothesiorum is in a clade with Cora minor.[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. rothesiorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cora rothesiorum B.Moncada, Madriñán & Lücking (2016)
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References
edit- ^ 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.