Systematic analyses of Ophiocordyceps ramosissimum sp. nov., a new species from a larvae of Hepialidae in China Author Wen, Ting-Chi The Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, P. R. China & Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand Author Xiao, Yuan-Pin The Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, P. R. China Author Li, Wen-Jing Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand Author Kang, Ji-Chuan The Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, P. R. China Author Hyde, Kevin D. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand text Phytotaxa 2014 2014-02-28 161 3 227 234 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.161.3.6 journal article 309196 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.3.6 e1771622-271c-4c57-9350-40d50d51a655 1179-3163 5131848

TABLE 2. Synopsis of the characteristics of Cordyceps species related to Ophiocordyceps ramosissimum.

Species	Host	Habit	Stromata	Ascomata	Asci	Ascospores	Reference
O.ramosissimum	Hepialidae larva	Living trunk or upper root near the soil	One or two, 70–150 × 2–4 mm	Superficial, ovoid, 340–350 × 225–255 µm	Cylindrical, 172–265 × 6.9–17.3 µm	Multiseptate, not breaking into secondary ascospores, 130–245 × 2–3.5 µm	This study
C. arbuscula	Popillia larva	Unknown	50–100 × 1– 1.5 mm	Ascomata half embedded to the surface, ovoid, 400–480 × 210– 245 µm	Cylindrical, 200–215 × 4 µm	Ascospores thread-like, multiseptate, 0.7 µm wide	Teng (1936)
O. acicularis	Elateridae larva	Soil	Single, 70 × 1 mm,with sterile apex	Superficial, long ovoid, 360–420 × 200–240 µm	Cylindrical, 7–7.4 µm wide	Thread-like, multiseptate, not breaking into secondary ascospores, 34.5–48 × 2–2.4 µm	Liang (2007)
O. appendiculata	Cryllotalpa africana	Soil	Binate, 35–70 × 1.8–2 mm, with sterile apex	Superficial, elliptical, 210– 155 × 130–140 µm	Cylindrical, 50–70 × 7–9 µm	Thread-like, multiseptate (7–8), not breaking into secondary ascospores, 40–63 × 2–2.5 µm	Kobayasi (1941)
O. emeiensis	Lepidoptera	Soil	Binate, 33–40	Superficial,	Thread-like,	Multiseptate, septate	Liang et
	larva		× 1–1.5 mm	subpyriform, 375–405 × 150– 225 µm	1600 × 4.2 µm	cells 6–8 × 1.5–2 µm, not breaking into secondary ascospores	al. (2003)
O.rubigino -siperitheciata	Campsosternus auratus larva	Soil	Single, 40–90 × 5 mm, with sterile apex	Superficial, elongated-ovate, 520–600 × 300 µm	6 µm wide	Long cylindrical, multiseptate, not breaking into secondary ascospores, 1–1.2 µm wide	Liang (2001)
O. stylophora	Elateridae larva	Dead wood	Single, occasionally 2, 15–45 × 1.5–2 mm	Entirely embedded or at right angles to the surface, ovoid, 240–420 × 144–240 µm	Cylindric-clavate, 170– 220 × 8–10 µm	Fusoid-cylindric, multiseptate, not breaking into secondary ascospores, 102–164 × 2–3 µm	Mains (1941)
O. xuefengensis	Hepialidae larva	Living trunk or upper root near soil	Solitary or several, 140– 460 × 2–7 mm	Superficial, long ovoid, 416–625 × 161–318 µm	Cylindrical, 191–392 × 4.5–8.9 µm	Thread-like, multiseptate, not breaking into secondary ascospores, 130–380 × 1.4–5.2 µm	Wen et al. (2013)