Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Cordyceps scottiana
Cordyceps scottiana Berk. ex Olliff , legitimate, scientific
Olliff, A.S. (1895), Australian entomophytes, or entomogenous fungi, and some accounts of insect-hosts. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 6: 407 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Ash Island, Hunter River, New South Wales; on larva of a Lucanid beetle (Rhyssonotus nebulosus, Kirby) living underground in a very rotten log. ... Specimens of this species were found at Ash Island, New South Wales, on 12th September, 1861, by the late Mr. A. W. Scott. ... Fifteen specimens dug up, after heavy rain, in a paddock thickly covered with young shrubs and trees, climbing vines, &c."
AusFungi (2019), AusFungi 21 Jan. 2019: - FungI [secondary reference]