Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cordyceps flavella Berk. &'Curt.; Berk. Jour. I,inn
Soc. 10: 375. 1868.
Stromata gregarious, 3-5 springing from nearly the same point; stem 2.5-3 cm. long, about 1 mm. thick, straight or more or less curved or flexuous, even and smooth; head globose, roughened by the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia, 2 mm. in diameter, similar in color to the stem ; asci elongate, narrowly cylindric, capitate at the apex, narrowed below into a slender pedicel ; spores arranged in a fascicle, filifornj, many-septate, 80 Xl/" ; component cells about 4^ long.
Growing from a caterpillar.
Type locality : Cuba,
Distribution : Cuba.
- 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
