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Goldenthread Cordyceps
1 public strain
A small club-shaped ascomycete that parasitizes underground deer truffles (Elaphomyces). It is joined to its buried host by golden-yellow mycelial threads. The dark red-brown to black head is the fertile stroma, dotted with embedded perithecia. Formerly placed in Cordyceps and Elaphocordyceps, it was moved to Tolypocladium in 2014.
Considered inedible. It is used in traditional Chinese medicine, but it is not a food mushroom.
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