Type: Ascopolyporus_polychrous Möller. Description: Stromata grows to approximately 4 cm in diameter, may be bright-rusty red or white to yellow, early in development conidial state covers the hypothallus, then perithecial stroma grows to cover hypothallus, perithecial stroma usually fertile only on underside of stroma, in cross section dark radiating lines and a soft aqueous center are present, stroma resembles a sporocarp of Polyporaceae, Basidiomycota. Perithecia narrow obclavate, crowed. Asci hyaline, 8 ascospores per ascus. Ascospores filiform to spiroid, hyaline, disarticulate into part-spores approximately 6 um long. Conidia white, oval, one- to multi-celled, congregating at phialide tips. Host: On dead clums of bamboo.

Reference: White JF, Bacon CW, Hywel-Jones NL, et al. (2003). Clavicipitalean fungi: evolutionary biology, chemistry, biocontrol and cultural impacts 19. CRC Press.