Neocordyceps Kobayasi, J. Jap. Bot. 59(6): 187 (1984)

MycoBank number: MB 25653; Index Fungorum number: IF 25653; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13091; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Neocordyceps kohyasanensis Kobayasi

Notes – This genus was introduced as a subgenus of Cordyceps with a single plant pathogenic species. It has a hymenostilbe-like asexual morph (White et al. 2003). The genus is characterised by clavate, stipitate stromata with an elongate fertile part, pyriform to ovoid, purple to black, immersed perithecia and fusiform, septate, entire ascospores (Kobayasi 1981, White et al. 2003).

Species

  • Neocordyceps kohyasanensis