Type: Purpureomyces_khaoyaiensis (Hywel-Jones) Luangsa-ard, Samson & Thanakitp. Etymology: Named after the colour of the stromata in nature. Description: Stroma solitary, white at the tip when young (immature) to purple, especially around the ostioles, cylindrical to clavate with tapering end, flexuous. Perithecia immersed to semi-immersed, ovoid, oblique in arrangement. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored, ascospores hyaline, filiform, whole, septate, not breaking into part-spores. Asexual morph lecanicillium-like. Host: Lepidoptera larva or pupa.

Reference: Mongkolsamrit S, Khonsanit A, Thanakitpipattana D, et al. (2020). Revisiting Metarhizium and the description of new species from Thailand. Studies in Mycology 95: 171–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2020.04.001