Family: Clavicipitaceae

Family: Clavicipitaceae

Fungi:> Ascomycota:> Ascomycetes:> Sordariomycetidae:> Hypocreales:> Clavicipitaceae:> Cordyceps.

Members of the Clavicipitaceae family grow by infecting insect larvae or mature insects with spores. These germinate and grow to slowly consume the insect till it dies. At which time they then produces spore bearing structures. Cordyceps are sexual state of the fungus, where Paecilomyces are the asexual form.	Other websites
	- Cordyceps fungus - Clavicipitaceae - Cyclosporin mold's - Cornell University

Genus: Cordyceps

Species: Cordyceps bassiana Known in New Zealand from its anamorph state only, usually refered to as Beauvaria bassiana
Common Name: Sugar icing fungus Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Dead Bugs	Season: Autumn Edible: No Spores: White

Species: Cordyceps robertsii Hooker
Common Name: Vegetable Caterpillar Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Ground partly buried Spores: ?	Height: 100 mm Above ground Width: 3 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Cordyceps tuberculata (Lebert) Maire.
Common Name: None Found: Leptospermum bush Substrate: Moth Spores: ?	Height: 15 mm Width: 25 mm Season: Winter Edible: No

Unidentified

The fungi below are those that I have been unable to identify beyond there genus. This maybe due to me miss understanding the keys, a species that has not yet been described (named) or no keys avalable to me.

Species: Cordyceps sp.
Common Name: None Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Wasp Spores: ?	Height: 15 mm Width: 0.5 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Cordyceps sp.
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Grub? Spores: ?	Height: 15 mm Width: 1 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Podocrella species Found on surface of rotten log growing from a grub within.
Common Name: None Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Grub Spores: ?	Height: 6 mm Width: 10 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Fungi:> Ascomycota:> Hyphomycete:> Akanthomyces, Gibellula, Isaria.

Below are a group of fungi that don't fit in well within my website and have nothing to do with the clavicipitaceae family .

Genus: Akanthomyces

Species: Akanthomyces aranearum (Petch) Mains
Common Name: None Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Spider Spores: ?	Height: 5 mm Width: 0.5 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Gibellula

Species: Gibellula pulchra
Common Name: None Found: Costal bush Substrate: Spider Spores: ?	Height: 8 mm Width: 8 mm Season: Winter Edible: No

Genus: Isaria

Species: Isaria sinclairii
Common Name: Vegetable cicada Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Ground partly buried Spores: White	Height: 40 mm Width: 4 mm Season: ? Edible: No

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