Cordyceps gunnii (Berk) Berk. Land. J. Bot.. 7: 572-580
Stromata growing from the head of Lepidoptera larva, usually simple, rarely branched, 10-90 x 5-6 mm. Stipe flexuous, white to white-grey. Fertile head cylindrical or obtuse, white to cream-yellow, differentiated from stipe, 8-22 x 5-8 mm.
Perithecia completely immersed, elongated or ampuliform, with the ostiodes opening on the surface of the head, 700-910 x 200-300 um.
Asci 8-spored, hyaline, cylindrical, 200-450 x 6.5-7.5 um. possessing a prominent apical cap, 7.5 width.
Ascospores filiform, hyaline, multiseptate with indistinct septation. easily breaking into hyaline part-spores, partspores truncate, cylindrical, 4-6.5 x 2-3 um.
Phialides swollen basal portion, tapering into a long thin neck, 7-19 x 2-3 um. Conidiophores manily arising from aerial hyphae, short , about 6o um. Conidia ellipsoidal oval or fusiform, 1.6-4.8 x 1.2-3.5 um, spinose, in divergent chains.
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