Tyrannicordyceps Kepler & Spatafora, Index Fungorum 12: 1 (2012)

MycoBank number: MB 550079; Index Fungorum number: IF 550079; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13112; 5 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Tyrannicordyceps fratricida (Tanda & Kobayasi) Kepler & Spatafora

Notes – This fungicolous genus was introduced for five species transferred from Cordyceps based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses. The asexual morph is verticillium–like (Kepler et al. 2012). It infects both plants and insects and produces pallid, yellow or sometimes vermilion stromata and filiform, septate ascospores which may break into part-spores (Kepler et al. 2012).

Species

  • Tyrannicordyceps fratricida