Paraisaria Samson & B.L. Brady, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 81(2): 285 (1983)

MycoBank number: MB 25834; Index Fungorum number: IF 25834; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13478; 11 species with sequence data.

Type species – Paraisaria gracilis (Grev.) Luangsa-ard, Mongkolsamrit & Samson

Notes – The genus was resurrected from Ophiocordyceps to accommodate three new species and eight combinations based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses (Mongkolsamrit et al. 2019). The genus is characterised by robust solitary stroma with globose or ovoid, fertile heads, and fleshy and cream stipes (Mongkolsamrit et al. 2019). Asexual morphs are developed as white, loose synnemata, with verticillately branched conidiophores and narrowly cylindrical to fusiform conidia (Mongkolsamrit et al. 2019).

Species

  • Paraisaria gracilis