 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Hypocreales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cordyceps martialis | |||
| Author： |
Cordyceps martialis Speg., Bol. Acad. Nac. Cordova 11: 305. 1889. |
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| Description： |
Ascostromata stipitate, arising from various parts of infected lepidopteran host, with acute apices. Stipes sterile, cylindrical to clavate, erect or prostrate, simple or occasionally branched, discrete or aggregated, 4.3-13.9 mm long, 0.5-2.7 mm wide, brown (6D6-8) to brownish orange (6C7-8), or light yellow to reddish yellow (4A4-6) towards the base, becoming dark brown (6F7-8) in age, consisting of compact longitudinal parallel or somewhat interwoven hyphae. Ascogenous portion terminal, irregularly clavate, with a central core, 9.3-24.1 mm long, 1.3-2.3 mm in diam., orange to deep orange (6A-B7-8), surface roughened by erumpent, dark brown ostioles. Perithecia narrowly ovoid, obclavate or irregular, 400-720 × 180-370 μm, completely and obliquely embedded in the peripheral pseudoparenchymatous tissue, composed of loosely to closely interwoven hyphae, perithecial wall 12-26 μm thick. Asci 8-spored, narrowly cylindrical, capitate, 150-350 ×4.0-5.6 μm, with a perforated refractive cap, hemispherical, 3.2-4.0 μm wide, 1.6-2.4 μm thick. Ascospores filiform, flexuous, 0.8-1.2 μm wide, rarely breaking into partspores. Conidial state unknown. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou County, Jenai, Aowanta, on lepidopteran larvae, Arctiidae, Le.133, 21 Jun 1994. |
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| Habitat： |
on lepidopteran larvae. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Japan. |
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| References： |
Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
newly recorded species. | |||