Species
Cordyceps militaris (Scarlet caterpillar club)
Cordyceps militaris. Photo: (c) Ashley Morris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Cordyceps militaris is a species of fungus in the family Clavicipitaceae, and the type species of the genus Cordyceps. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Clavaria militaris.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Ascomycota (Ascomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Pezizomycotina (Higher ascomycetes)
- Class: Sordariomycetes
- Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
- Order: Hypocreales
- Family: Cordycipitaceae
- Genus: Cordyceps
- Species: Cordyceps militaris (Scarlet caterpillar club)
- Genus: Cordyceps
- Family: Cordycipitaceae
- Order: Hypocreales
- Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
- Class: Sordariomycetes
- Subphylum: Pezizomycotina (Higher ascomycetes)
- Phylum: Ascomycota (Ascomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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