Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cordyceps palustris Berk. & Br.; Berk. Jour
Linn. Soc. 1 : 159. 1857.
Stromata 1-3 cm. high ; stem 3-4 mm. thick, simple or divided into 2-4 short branchlets, even, smooth, brown ; head 1-2 cm. long, thicker than the stem, cylindric-ovoid, dull brownish-purple or flesh-colored, minutely rough with the slightly protruding necks of the perithecia ; asci elongate, narrowly cylindric, capitate, tapering below into a long, slender pedicel ; spores arranged in a parallel fascicle, slightly curved, filiform, hyaline, becoming many-septate, 100-120 X 1 Z', the segments 1.5 /^ long. On moist rotten logs, growing: from the larvae of some coleopterous insect Type locality : South Carolina.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality
- 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
