Tolypocladium inflatum

Tolypocladium inflatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Ophiocordycipitaceae
Genus: Tolypocladium
Species:
T. inflatum
Binomial name
Tolypocladium inflatum
W. Gams (1971)
Synonyms[1][2][3][4]

Pachybasium niveum O. Rostr. (1916)
Tolypocladium niveum (O. Rostr.) Bissett (1983)
Beauveria nivea (O. Rostr.) Arx (1986)
Cordyceps subsessilis Petch (1937)
Elaphocordyceps subsessilis (Petch) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung & Spatafora (2007)

Tolypocladium inflatum is an ascomycete fungus originally isolated from a Norwegian soil sample that, under certain conditions, produces the immunosuppressant drug ciclosporin.[5] In its sexual stage (teleomorph) it is a parasite on scarab beetles. It forms a small, compound ascocarp that arises from the cadaver of its host beetle. In its asexual stage (anamorph) it is a white mold that grows on soil. It is much more commonly found in its asexual stage and this is the stage that was originally given the name Tolypocladium inflatum.[5]

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