Cora benitoana

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Cora benitoana is a type of basidiolichen in the Hygrophoraceae family. It was found in Mexico and described as a new species in 2019 by Bibiana Moncada, Rosa Emilia Pérez-Pérez, and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected in a cloud forest on Cerro Pelón, Santiago Comaltepec, Oaxaca, at about 2,990 meters above sea level. The name honors Benito Pablo Juárez García, a Mexican president from Oaxaca. Cora benitoana is known only from a small region in Oaxaca, where it grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks in cloud forests at elevations of 2,000–3,000 meters. It typically grows over mosses and liverworts, especially from the genus Frullania.