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

Date: 21 October 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 21/10/2000[A]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: growing from moth pupa in moss
Associated organism: on pupa of Lepidoptera
Identification Notes: Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Ascospores: multiseriate, 180-230/1.5µm, breaking into part-spores 3-4/1.5µm

Images etc

naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - excavated 233 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - in situ 375 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stroma - surface showing perithecia - close-up 400 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Stroma - surface showing perithecia 338 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - showing ascospores within 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - showing ascospores within 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci from squashed perithecium 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci with protruding ascospores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - before breaking into part spores 500 by 417 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - before breaking into part spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - close-up before breaking up into part spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - in spore print 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - in spore print 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - in spore print 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - in spore print 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascospores - in spore print 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tip with protruding ascospores 327 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 454 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 451 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Ascus tips 323 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Perithecial wall 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Perithecial wall 400 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Squashed perithecia and asci 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Squashed perithecia and asci 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Squashed perithecia and asci 500 by 400 pixels

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