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(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
SORDARIOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ascomycetes and lichens)
HYPOCREALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
CLAVICIPITACEAE
(a family of pyrenomycetes)
Cordyceps
(caterpillarclubs and truffleclubs)
Cordyceps militaris
(Scarlet Caterpillarclub)
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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link, 1833 (Scarlet Caterpillarclub)

Date: 28 August 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 28/08/1999[A]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on buried mummified caterpillar
Associated organism: on mummified larva of Lepidoptera

Images etc

magnified photograph Fruitbody - stalk - close-up 30 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - surface - close-up 23 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - tips - close-up 18 Kb 257 by 397 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody on mummified caterpillar 28 Kb 291 by 419 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody on mummified caterpillar 344 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci showing tips of long narrow spores 3 Kb 52 by 272 pixels
microscope photograph Asci showing tips of long narrow spores 5 Kb 68 by 309 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 29 Kb 427 by 341 pixels
microscope photograph Asci 500 by 401 pixels

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