Cordyceps Fr. 1818

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Name scientific

Cordyceps Fr. 1818

Preferred name

Cordyceps Fr. 1818

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Fr.

Original authors

Fr.

Publication place

Fries, E.M. 1818: Observationes Mycologicae. 2. G. Bonnier.

Year published

1818

Publication page

316 (cancellans)

Nomenclatural status

conserved, replacement, replacement name

Based on Cordylia Fr. 1818, nom. illegit., non Cordylia Pers. 1806 [Fabaceae]

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cordyceps Fr. 1818

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Cordyceps

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Sordariomycetes

Order

Hypocreales

Family

Cordycipitaceae

Genus

Cordyceps

Subordinates

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Nothofagus

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)

has host

Amphipsalta

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Arachnida

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Aristotelia serrata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) W.R.B.Oliv.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Arthropoda

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Astelia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cicadidae

PDD (5 records from [Not available].)

has host

Coccidae

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Coleoptera

PDD (17 records from [Not available].)

has host

Costelytra zealandica

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea smithii Hook.f.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dicksonia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Diptera Linnaeus, 1758

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Gahnia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Insecta

PDD (6 records from [Not available].)

has host

Lepidoptera

PDD (20 records from [Not available].)

has host

Macropathus filifer Walker, 1869

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Mantidae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Oxycanus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus hallii Kirk

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Scarabaeidae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Vespidae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Cordyceps Fr. 1818

Notes

Members of this genus are popularly known as ”vegetable caterpillars” due to their parasitic habit on insect larvae, including some caterpillar species. Fruiting bodies are mostly club-shaped, broad or elongate, depending on the species. They are always derived from an insect host, although the host may be buried in soil. Fruiting bodies are usually dark coloured and camouflaged against the forest floor, with an aerial fertile region comprising aggregated, tiny, flask-shaped structures, within which are formed elongate asci, each containing 8 ascospores. The club may be simple or occasionally branched. Typically only found in native forests. In Asia, species of Cordyceps are of commercial importance for herbal/medicinal use.

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Isaria Pers. 1794

Notes

These develop masses of powdery white spores on short stalks above the killed insect. The most common and distinctive species in New Zealand is Isaria sinclairii, common in the North Island on parasitised cicada larvae. The dead larvae are typically buried in the soil, where only the white tuft of spores is visible.