Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cordyceps stylophora Berk. & Br.; Berk. Joun I^inn
Soc. 1 : 158. 1857.
Stromata solitary, dull-brownish, consisting of a sterile stem and fertile head, with a long sterile apiculus, the entire plant 2-3 cm. high ; stem straight or flexuous, more or less velvety, longitudinally wrinkled when dry; fertile head slightly roughened by the protruding necks of the perithecia ; sterile apiculus 1 cm. or more long ; asci cylindric or slightly constricted below the capitate apex ; spores arranged in a fascicle, filiform, curved when free,
many-septate, 125-135X1 /^ ; segments 3.5 /^ long.
On larvae in rotten logs.
Type locality : South Carolina.
Distribution : Michigan to South Carolina.
- 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
