Ophiocordyceps krachonicola

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Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola
Ophiocordyceps krachonicola


Holotype:

THAILAND, Phitsanulok Province, Ban Phao Thai Community Forest, 10 Oct. 2015, S. Mongkolsamrit, D. Thanakitpipattana, W. Noisripoom, A. Khonsanit, holotype BBH 40672, ex-type living culture BCC 79666.


Habitat:

Buried in the soil.


Host:

Gryllidae.


Description:

Stroma solitary, cylindrical, arising from the head of cricket nymph buried in the ground, 37-40 × 1-1.5 mm. Fertile part cylindrical to clavate, pale grey, ostiole dark grey, up to 25 mm long, 2-3 mm wide. Perithecia completely immersed, ordinal in arrangement, ovoid to obclavate, 460-580 × 180-300 µm. Asci cylindrical with thickened ascus apex, 8-spored, 250-400 × 4-5 μm. Ascus-cap rounded. Ascospores divided into 64 part-spores after maturity, 300-450 × 1 μm, part-spores cylindrical, 4-10 × 1 μm.


Culture characteristics:

Colony on PDA fast growing, attaining ca 2.2 cm diam after 21 d at 20 °C, white to cream with distinct margin. Phialides flaskshaped with distinct neck, 3–7 × 1.5–2 μm. Conidia not in chains, hyaline, 1-celled, fusiform, 3–7 × 2–3 μm.




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