Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cordyceps insignis Cooke & Rav.; Cooke,
Grevillea 12: 38. 1883.
Stromata 4-6 cm. long, purple ; stem 7-8 mm. thick, equal, pallid, sulcate (when dry), very minuely velvety at the base; head broadly ovoid, 1.5X1 cm., very slightly roughened by the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia; asci narrowly cylindric, slightly constricted below the capitate apex, narrowed below into a slender stem-like base ; spores arranged in k parallel fascicle, slightly twisted, hyaline, filiform, manyseptate, wavy when free, 170-180 X 15 /^, separating readily into segments in the ascus ;
segments 6-7 (i long.
On larvae on the ground.
Type locality : South Carolina.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Fred Jay Seaver, Helen Letitia Palliser, David Griffiths. 1910. HYPOCREALES, FIMETARIALES. North American flora. vol 3(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
