Fungalpedia – Note 1997, Tolypocladium

 

Tolypocladium W. Gams

Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

This genus was was protected over Elaphocordyceps and Chaunopycnis by Quandt et al. (2014). It contains parasites of insects, rotifers and other fungi or is a soil-inhabitant (Quandt et al. 2014). The asexual morph is characterised by solitary or branched, cylindrical to conical phialides and cylindrical to globose conidia, the sexual morph is characterised by darkly pigmented, stipitate stromata, half-immersed to immersed perithecia, a yellow to brown pigmented peridium and ascospores breaking into part-spores (Gams 1971, Bissett 1983, Gazis et al. 2014).

Type species: Tolypocladium inflatum W. Gams.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Tolypocladium.

 

References

Bissett J. 1983 – Notes on Tolypocladium and related genera. Canadian Journal of Botany 61, 1311–1329.

Gams W. 1971 – Cephalosporium-artige Schimmelpilze (Hyphomycetes). Gustav Fischer Verlag. Stuttgart, Germany 1–262.

Gazis R, Skaltsas D, Chaverri P. 2014 – Novel endophytic lineages of Tolypocladium provide new insights into the ecology and evolution of Cordyceps-like fungi. Mycologia 106, 1090–1105.

Quandt CA, Kepler RM, Gams W, Araújo et al. 2014 – Phylogenetic-based nomenclatural proposals for Ophiocordycipitaceae (Hypocreales) with new combinations in Tolypocladium. IMA Fungus 5, 121–134.

 

Entry by

Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China

 

Published online 16 March 2026

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