Type: Paraisaria_gracilis (Grev.) Luangsa-ard, Mongkols. & Samson. Etymology: Gracilis, a Latin adjective meaning slender, graceful or gracile, refer to the stroma of this species. Description: Sexual morphs robust solitary stroma, fertile globose or ovoid head, 2–10 × 1.5–7 mm. The stipe is fleshy and cream. Perithecia are ovoid-ellipsoid or obclavate, completely immersed and ordinal in orientation. Asci are hyaline, cylindrical and eight-spored. Ascospores are hyaline, filiform, multi-septate, breaking into regular cylindrical part-spores. Asexual morphs are developed as white, loose synnemata consisting of verticillately branched conidiophores with phialides, frequently polyphialidic, with swollen bases with a thin tapering neck, with production of narrowly cylindrical to fusiform conidia produced in slimy heads. Host: Coleoptera larva, Orthoptera nymph.

Reference: Mongkolsamrit S, Noisripoom W, Arnamnart N, et al. (2019). Resurrection of Paraisaria in the Ophiocordycipitaceae with three new species from Thailand. Mycological Progress 18: 1213–1230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-019-01518-x