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11-09-2011, 04:26 PM
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| | | Cordyceps species for ID please
I don't have enough literature to put a definite name to this - can anyone help please?
I've looked back for Mikes fungi growing out of a fly - is this a different stage of the same species Hymenostilbe muscaria or something else?
Thanks
Pauline
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11-09-2011, 05:30 PM
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| | | Re: Cordyceps species for ID please
Hi Pauline,
Looking at your photo, the fruiting body has a somewhat club shaped apex.
I'm thinking that even though this isn't the typical shape, (it is usually depicted with a more spherical apex - but I have seen photos which do look just like your example), this is likely to be Cordyceps forquignonii (Syn. Ophiocordyceps forquignonii) - of which the anamorph stage is Hymenostilbe muscaria.
Examples of both Hymenostilbe muscaria, and Cordyceps forquignonii have been collected at the same site by NWFG members within the last few weeks.
EDIT - On second thoughts, having done a bit more web searching, I think that the photos depicting fruitbodies similar to yours might have been mis-labelled as C.forquignonii, and that your find looks much more like the anamorph stage, H.muscaria.
Regards,
Mike.
Last edited by Lancashire Lad; 11-09-2011 at 05:49 PM.
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11-09-2011, 07:37 PM
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| | | Re: Cordyceps species for ID please
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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad  Hi Pauline,
Looking at your photo, the fruiting body has a somewhat club shaped apex.
I'm thinking that even though this isn't the typical shape, (it is usually depicted with a more spherical apex - but I have seen photos which do look just like your example), this is likely to be Cordyceps forquignonii (Syn. Ophiocordyceps forquignonii) - of which the anamorph stage is Hymenostilbe muscaria.
Examples of both Hymenostilbe muscaria, and Cordyceps forquignonii have been collected at the same site by NWFG members within the last few weeks.
EDIT - On second thoughts, having done a bit more web searching, I think that the photos depicting fruitbodies similar to yours might have been mis-labelled as C.forquignonii, and that your find looks much more like the anamorph stage, H.muscaria.
Regards,
Mike. | OK thanks for that Mike - I suspected it would be the same as yours but at a different stage - I will put it into the Gallery with your latest labelling and see if anyone comes up with anything else - thank Mike.
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