Pleurocordyceps aurantiaca

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Pleurocordyceps aurantiaca


Holotype:

THAILAND, Prachuap Khiri Khan, 29 July 2015, Y.P. Xiao, holotype BK15072907 (MFLU 17-1393), ex-type living cultures, MFLUCC 17-2113, MFLUCC 17-2114, MFLUCC 17-2115, KUMCC 17-0256, KUMCC 17-0257.


Habitat:

Hyperparasite on Pleurocordyceps phaothaiensis


Host:

On larvae Coleopteran


Description:

Hyperparasite on Pleurocordyceps phaothaiensis, buried in the soil. Synnemata not solitary, arising from the fertile head of the stromata, flat-shaped, orange color. Phialides 9–14 × 0.5–1.5 μm, hyaline. Conidia 2 × 2 μm, oval to globose shape, hyaline, one-celled, smooth-walled, orange in mass.


Culture characteristics:

Colonies on PDA attaining a diam 2 cm diam in 7 days, white, reverse yellow. Synnemata emerging after 30 days, solitary or not solitary, branched or unbranched. Conidial masses generating from the apex of the synnemata or covering the surface of the colony.




Reference:

  • Xiao YP, Wen TC, Hongsanan S, et al. (2018). Multigene phylogenetics of Polycephalomyces (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), with two new species from Thailand. Scientific reports8: 18087.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36792-4
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Strain

MG136918

MFLU 17-1394 MG136906