Cordyceps ophioglossoides    (Ehrh.:Fr.) Link 

common name(s) : Snaketongue Truffleclub, Club-shaped Cordyceps 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreomycetidae/Hypocreales/Cordycipitaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pyrenomycetideae/Clavicipitales/Clavicipitaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Tolypocladium ophioglossoides, Cordyceps parasitica, Cordiceps ophioglossoides)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Cordyceps ophioglossoides
photo gallery of  Cordyceps ophioglossoides potential confusions with  Cordyceps ophioglossoides toxicity of Cordyceps ophioglossoides genus Cordyceps  

The fruiting body is tongue-shaped or club-shaped, black, with a well differentiated stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous forests, sometimes also with broad-leaved trees, on a rather acid soil, with beech, oaks.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.5 and 3 cm)
  total height approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Cordyceps ophioglossoides is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cordyceps ophioglossoides in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cordyceps ophioglossoides in the forest of Rambouillet



page updated on 14/01/18