Cordyceps
Sign in to saveCordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes over 260 species worldwide, many of which are parasitic. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine. Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi.
Species
Scarlet Caterpillar Club
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderHypocreales
- FamilyCordycipitaceae
Observations2,979
Cordyceps /ˈkɔːrdɪsɛps/ 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. Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi. The generic name Cordyceps is derived from the Ancient Greek word κορδύλη kordýlē, meaning "club", and the Latin suffix -ceps, meaning "-headed". Currently, the genus has a worldwide distribution and most of the approximately 600 species that have been described are from Asia (notably Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand).
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Research
2,862 papers- Cordyceps Polysaccharides: A Review of Their Immunomodulatory Effects.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
- Cordyceps as potential therapeutic agents for atherosclerosis.Journal of integrative medicine · 2024
- Cordyceps militaris: A novel mushroom platform for metabolic engineering.Biotechnology advances · 2024
- Extracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis in Cordyceps.Critical reviews in microbiology · 2020
- Chinese Cordyceps: Bioactive Components, Antitumor Effects and Underlying Mechanism-A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Splits
- Selected species
- Anamorphic genera
- Biology
- Research
- Uses
- Cultural representations
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- References
Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes over 260 species worldwide, many of which are parasitic. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine. Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi.
The generic name Cordyceps is derived from the ancient Greek κορδύλη kordýlē, meaning "club", and the Latin -ceps, derived from Latin caput, meaning "head". The genus has a worldwide distribution, with most of the known species being from Asia.