Type: Samsoniella_inthanonensis Mongkols., Noisrip., Thanakitp., Spatafora & Luangsa-ard. Etymology: This genus is named after Prof. Robert A. Samson and honors his contributions to our knowledge of insect-associated fungi. Description: Sexual morph: Hosts buried in the ground with rhizoids forming on the host surface. Stromata cylindrical to clavate, gregarious, bright red-orange. Fertile part clavate, perithecia superficial, densely packed, asci cylindrical, ascospores bola-shaped. Asexual morph: Found in soil or on hosts on leaf litter. Synnemata erect, broad, red-orange, irregularly branched from 15–40 mm above the ground and continuing to the apex. Isaria-like morph producing a dry mass of white to cream conidia at the branches along the synnemata, powdery and floccose. Conidiophores biverticillate with phialides in whorls of two to seven. Phialides with a cylindrical to ellipsoidal basal portion, tapering into a distinct neck. Conidia 1-celled, hyaline, fusiform or lemon-shaped. Host: Various insect orders.

Reference: Mongkolsamrit S, Noisripoom W, Thanakitpipattana D, et al. (2018). Disentangling cryptic species with isaria-like morphs in Cordycipitaceae. Mycologia 110: 230–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2018.1446651