Genus of fungi
Cordyceps
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Cordyceps militaris
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Fungi
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Division:
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Ascomycota
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Class:
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Sordariomycetes
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Order:
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Hypocreales
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Family:
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Cordycipitaceae
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Genus:
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Cordyceps Fr. (1818)
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Type species
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Cordyceps militaris
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Species[1]
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- Cordyceps acridophila
- Cordyceps albocitrina
- Cordyceps amoene -rosea
- Cordyceps ampullacea
- Cordyceps bifusispora
- Cordyceps blackwelliae
- Cordyceps brasiliensis
- Cordyceps cateniannulata
- Cordyceps cateniobliqua
- Cordyceps chiangdaoensis
- Cordyceps cicadae
- Cordyceps coccidioperitheciata
- Cordyceps coleopterorum
- Cordyceps confragosa
- Cordyceps cuncunae
- Cordyceps cylindrica
- Cordyceps farinosa
- Cordyceps fratricida
- Cordyceps fumosorosea
- Cordyceps ghanensis
- Cordyceps grylli
- Cordyceps guangdongensis
- Cordyceps gunnii
- Cordyceps gunnii var. minor
- Cordyceps henleyae
- Cordyceps hepialidicola
- Cordyceps hesleri
- Cordyceps ignota
- Cordyceps imagamiana
- Cordyceps isarioides
- Cordyceps javanica
- Cordyceps kirkii
- Cordyceps koreana
- Cordyceps kurijimeansis
- Cordyceps kyushuensis
- Cordyceps lepidopterorum
- Cordyceps locusticola
- Cordyceps locustiphila
- Cordyceps memorabilis
- Cordyceps militaris
- Cordyceps morakotii
- Cordyceps nakazawai
- Cordyceps nidus
- Cordyceps ninchukispora
- Cordyceps ningxiaensis
- Cordyceps nirtolii
- Cordyceps ochraceostromata
- Cordyceps pleuricapitata
- Cordyceps polyarthra
- Cordyceps poprawskii
- Cordyceps pruinosa
- Cordyceps pseudonelumboides
- Cordyceps rosea
- Cordyceps roseostromata
- Cordyceps scarabaeucika
Cordyceps sinensis See Ophiocordyceps sinensis.
- Cordyceps spegazzinii
- Cordyceps sphingum
- Cordyceps submilitaris
- Cordyceps taishanensis
- Cordyceps takaomontana
- Cordyceps tenuipes
Cordyceps unilateralis See Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
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Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 600 worldwide species. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine.[2] Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi.[3]
The generic name Cordyceps is derived from the ancient Greek κορδύλη kordýlē, meaning "club", and the Latin -ceps, meaning "-headed".[4] The genus has a worldwide distribution, with most of the approximately 600 known species[5] being from Asia (notably Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand).