Cora cuzcoensis Holgado, Rivas Plata & Perlmutter

Oset, Magdalena, Flakus, Adam & Guzow-Krzemińska, Beata, 2025, Two new species of Cora (lichenized Basidiomycota, Lichenomphaliaceae) and additional records from Bolivia, MycoKeys 126, pp. 1-18 : 1-18

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.126.165395
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17790160
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scientific name	Cora cuzcoensis Holgado, Rivas Plata & Perlmutter
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Cora cuzcoensis Holgado, Rivas Plata & Perlmutter View in CoL , Fungal Diversity 84: 166 (2017)

Description.

For the characteristics of the species, see Lücking et al. (2017).

Habitat and distribution.

Until now Cora cuzcoensis was only known from the type locality near Machu Picchu in Peru, growing on the ground in the highly disturbed subandine rain forest, at an altitude of 3,500 m ( Lücking et al. 2017). The record of C. cuzcoensis given here is the first from Bolivia. Specimens were found at elevation 3545 m in open anthropogenic area. The specimen was found on soil.

Specimens examined.

Bolivia • Dept. La Paz; Prov. La Paz, Prov. Larecaja, Jocollone village, Paramo Yungeño , 15°37'35"S, 68°41'21"W, elev. 3545 m, open anthropogenic area, on terricolous, 14 May 2011, A. Flakus 20419 & O. Plata ( KRAM L-66937 ; LPB) GoogleMaps .

Notes.

According to Lücking et al. (2017) Cora cuzcoensis is a terrestrial species characterised by rather dark, olive-green lobes. Meanwhile, the thallus of the examined specimen was dark in the center and grey to greyish-white at the edge of the thallus. The most similar species is C. caliginosa Holgado, Rivas Plata & Perlmutter from the same habitat, which differs in the dark olive-grey lobes without greenish tinge and the thicker thallus. Both species are not phylogenetically closely related ( Lücking et al. 2017).