Host: The Mycological Society of Japan
A new classification of Cordyceps and the Clavicipitaceae was proposed following the systematic and phylogenetic methods of Sung and Spatafora (2006). Family Clavicipitaceae was separated into three families Cordycipitaceae, Clavicipitaceae and Ophiocordycipitaceae based on the sequences of seven genes (nrSSU, nrLSU, B-tubulin, EF-1a, RPB1 and RPB2, and mtATP6). Clavicipitaceae (Lindau) Erikss. emend. prov. Sung and Spatafora includes grass or insect-associated genera (e.g. Balansia, Claviceps, Epichloe, Myriogenospora and Metacordyceps Sung and Spatafora gen. prov). Claviceps has been collected from Korea. Cordycipitaceae Wehmeyer emend. Prov. Sung and Spatafora includes insect-associated genera (e.g. Cordyceps). Eleven species including C. militaris are collected from Korea. Ophiocordycipitaceae Sung and Spatafora fam. prov. includes as pathogens of insect or subterranean or wood-inhabiting hosts, deeply buried in soil or imbedded in decaying wood(e.g. Elaphocordyceps, Ophiocordyceps Sung and Spatafora gen. prov. and Torrubiella). Three species of E. ophioglossoides, 17 species of O. longissima Sung and Spatafora gen. prov. and T. neofusiformis has been collected from Korea.
