Family: Clavicipitaceae

Fungi :> Ascomycota :> Ascomycetes :> Sordariomycetidae :> Hypocreales :> Clavicipitaceae :> Cordyceps, Neobarya, Podocrella.

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.

Genus: Cordyceps

Cordyceps bassiana

Cordyceps robertsii

Cordyceps tuberculata

Genus: Unidentified

The fungi below are those that I have been unable to identify beyond there genus and even this in this case is only a guess.

Hirsutella saussurei

Cordyceps sp.

Genus: Neobarya

Neobarya agaricola

Genus: Podocrella

Podocrella species

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

Akanthomyces aranearum

Genus: Gibellula

Gibellula pulchra

Genus: Isaria

Isaria sinclairii

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