taxonID	type	description	language	source
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	description	MycoBank: MB 810173	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	etymology	Etymology: highlandensis refers to habitats of the fungus.	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: CHINA. Yunnan Prov.: Huize County, Jiache Township, Jiache village, 23 July 2014. Z. L. Yang 5797 (HKAS 83207).	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	description	Stroma (Fig. 2, Fig. 3 a) arising from head of host (larva of Scarabaeidae, Coleoptera), solitary and simple, 3.5 – 8 cm in height. Stipe cylindrical, 2.5 – 6 cm long, 1.5 – 2.5 mm in diam, dark-brown to blackish, fleshy, glabrous, smooth, enlarging abruptly at fertile portion. Fertile portion single, elliptical to fusiform, 5 – 15 mm long, 2.5 – 4 mm in diam, dark brown to fuliginous. Sterile apical portion 5 – 10 mm long, attenuate towards the apex. Perithecia (Fig. 4) crowded, nearly fully immersed, vase-form, ovoid to oblong, 230 – 410 × 120 – 200 μm, oriented at more or less right angles to the longitudinal axis of the stroma; ostioles not protruding; cortex of the fertile portion in transverse section composed of slightly thick-walled (≤ 1 μm thick) yellow-brown cells 7 – 15 × 5 – 12 μm. Asci (Fig. 3 b, c) 8 - spored, narrowly clavate to nearly cylindrical, 140 – 170 × 5 – 6.5 μm when mature; apex tip 2.5 – 4.5 μm in height, 4.5 – 5.5 μm in width, non-amyloid; basal septa with crosiers (Fig. 3 b). Ascospores (Fig. 3 d) filiform, 3 - septate, rarely 4 - septate, 130 – 150 × 1.5 – 2 μm, smooth, colorless and hyaline, breaking easily into four (rarely five) part-spores (20) 33 – 55 × 1.5 – 2 μm. The interior of stipe composed of vertically arranged, frequently septate, slightly thick-walled (≤ 1 μm thick), filamentous hyphae 3 – 8 μm. Surface of stipe (cortex, Fig. 3 e) a hymeniform layer of cells with brownish to brown vacuolar pigment; terminal cells mostly clavate to narrowly clavate, sometimes subfusiform with an attenuate apical appendage, 10 – 35 × 3 – 6 μm. Anamorph not observed.	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	distribution	Habitat and known distribution: On larvae of Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) buried ca 20 – 40 mm below ground in forests dominated by Pinaceae and Fagaceae at elevation 2200 – 2300 m in northeastern Yunnan, China.	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined: CHINA. Yunnan Prov.: Huize County, Jiache Township, Jiache village, 27 June 2014. Z. L. Yang 5796 (HKAS 83206); Huize County, Shangxiang Township, Malong village, May 2013, Z. L. Yang 5759 (HKAS 80036).	en	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
