Snaketongue Truffleclub

Cordyceps ophioglossoides

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By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Snaketongue Truffleclub Cordyceps ophioglossoides (Ehr.) Link (illustrated 50% life size) Fruit body 3–10cm high, fertile head club-shaped, yellow and smooth, later black and finely roughened, tapering into a smooth, yellow stem. Spores breaking into 2.5–5×2¼ elliptical-cylindrical part-spores. Habitat as a parasite on species of Elaphomyces (opposite); autumn. Occasional. Not edible.