Cora benitoana

Cora benitoana is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Mexico, it was formally 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 an altitude of 2990 m. The specific epithet honours Benito Pablo Juárez García, Mexican President from the state of Oaxaca.

Cora benitoana is only known to occur in a small region in Oaxaca, where it grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks in a cloud forest, at elevations ranging from 2000 to 3000 m. It usually grows over mosses and liverworts, particularly from the genus Frullania.