Tolypocladium W. Gams, Persoonia 6(2): 185 (1971)

MycoBank number: MB 10242; Index Fungorum number: IF 10242; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10425; 47 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 24 species with sequence data.

Type species – Tolypocladiumin inflatum W. Gams

Notes – This genus was was protected over Elaphocordyceps and Chaunopycnis by Quandt et al. (2014). It contains parasites of insects, rotifers and other fungi or is a soil-inhabitant (Quandt et al. 2014). The asexual morph is characterised by solitary or branched, cylindrical to conical phialides and cylindrical to globose conidia, the sexual morph is characterised by darkly pigmented, stipitate stromata, half-immersed to immersed perithecia, a yellow to brown pigmented peridium and ascospores breaking into part-spores (Gams 1971, Bissett 1983, Gazis et al. 2014).

Species

  • Tolypocladiumin inflatum