Ophiocordyceps sobolifera (Hill ex Watson) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Taxonomy

Authority:

(Hill ex Watson) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Citation:

Studies in Mycology 57: 46.

Synonymy:

Clavaria sobolifera Hill ex Watson, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. 53: 271. 1763.
Sphaeria sobolifera (Hill ex Watson) Berk., J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 207. 1843.
Torrubia sobolifera (Hill ex Watson) Tul. & C. Tul., Sel. Fung. Carpol. 3: 10. 1865.
Cordyceps sobolifera (Hill ex Watson) Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc. 14: 110. 1875.

Mycobank:

MB 504342

NCBI:

NCBI Taxonomy Entry

Classification:

Ophiocordyceps, Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Morphology

Stroma:

Stromata commonly solitary, often simple, clavate to cylindrical, 20-80 x 2-6 mm, growing from head of cicada nymph. Fertile area clavate, smoothly continued from stalk, surface smooth or punctate, pale ocherous in color. Stipe cylindrical, glabrous, tan to ocherous surface, internally white.

Perithecia:

Perithecia semi-crowded to crowded, perpendicularly immersed, flasked shaped with elongated neck, hyaline, 500-600 x 220-260 um.

Asci:

Asci cylindrical, 300-470 x 5.6-6.5 um, with a globose to semi-globose cap (4.8-5.2 um).

Ascospores:

Ascospores cylindrical, multiseptate, disarticulated into partspores. Partspores hyaline, truncate, 6-13 x 1-1.5 um.

Anamorph

Genus:

Beauveria

Species:

sobolifera

Authority:

Z.Y. Liu, Z.Q. Liang, Whalley, A.Y. Liu & Y.J. Yao

Notes:

While Liu et al. have reported Beaveria sobolifera as the anamorph of Ophiocordyceps sobolifera, this link has been questioned by current phylogenetic analyses.

Ecology

Host or Substrate:

on nymph of cicada (Heteroptera)

Known Distribution:

China, Cuba, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Mexico, Sri Lanka

References

Kobayasi, Y, Shimizu D. 1963. Monographic studies of Cordyceps 2. Group parasitic on Cicadae. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo,. 6:286-314.

Sung et al., 2007. Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi. Studies in Mycology, 57(1), p.5-59

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Alisha Owensby