taxonID	type	description	language	source
936887E7FFC38705FF6CFF3880A57247.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA. Guizhou Province: Shibin County, Yuntai Mountain, on larvae of Lepidoptera in the soil, 23 April 2013, Li-Ping Chen SB 13050302 (GZUH SB 13050302, holotype!), ex-type living culture GZUCCSB 130503021! Sexual morph: Stromata arising from head of host (larvae of Lepidoptera), solitary or in groups of 2 – 3, rarely branched, 40 – 80 mm long, 2 – 6 mm wide, pallid, fleshy. Stipe cylindrical 2 – 4 mm wide, white to grey, fleshy, glabrous, enlarging abruptly at fertile portion. Fertile portion round head-shape, 10 – 12 mm long, 3 – 6 mm wide, white to grey (fresh specimen). Ascomata crowded, completely immersed, ampuliform, ovoid to oblong, 630 – 830 × 240 – 340 μm (x = 732 × 278, n = 10), curved, with the ostioles opening on the surface of the fertile head. Peridium 24 – 38 μm (x = 29, n = 15) wide, comprising three layers. Asci 250 – 480 × 3 – 5 μm (x = 347 × 3.8, n = 10), 8 - spored, hyaline, narrowly cylindrical, possessing a prominent apical cap. Apical cap 5 – 8 × 3 – 6 μm (x = 7.2 × 4.7, n = 15). Ascospores 330 – 460 × 2 – 3 μm (x = 397 × 2.6, n = 15), hyaline, filiform, multi-septate, disarticulating into secondary ascospores. Secondary ascospores 2.5 – 4 × 1.5 – 2 μm (x = 3 × 1.9, n = 15), cylindrical, hyaline. Asexual state: Paecilomyces- like. Asexual morph: Colonies on Czapek agar, attaining a diameter of 25 – 30 mm within 14 d at 25 ° C, dense, white at first, becoming pale to grey; brownish or dark brown at center, reddish brown at margin, slightly penetrating medium, reverse similar in colour (Fig. 2). Conidiophores short, hyaline, smooth, up to 60 μm long, mostly arising from aerial hyphae. Conidiogenous cells swollen globose at basal portion, tapering into thin and long cylindrical neck, smooth, hyaline, 12 – 21.5 × 2 – 3 μm, sometimes proliferating. Conidia ellipsoidal, ovoid or fusiform, 1 - celled, spinulose conidia, 3.5 – 5 × 2 – 3 μm, in long divergent, dry chains.	en	Wen, Ting-Chi, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Han, Yan-Feng, Huang, Shi-Ke, Zha, Ling-Sheng, Hyde, Kevin D., Kang, Ji-Chuan (2017): Multigene phylogeny and morphology reveal that the Chinese medicinal mushroom ‘ Cordyceps gunnii’ is Metacordyceps neogunnii sp. nov. Phytotaxa 302 (1): 27-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2
936887E7FFC38705FF6CFF3880A57247.taxon	distribution	Distribution: — Anhui, Guangdong, Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan Province, China.	en	Wen, Ting-Chi, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Han, Yan-Feng, Huang, Shi-Ke, Zha, Ling-Sheng, Hyde, Kevin D., Kang, Ji-Chuan (2017): Multigene phylogeny and morphology reveal that the Chinese medicinal mushroom ‘ Cordyceps gunnii’ is Metacordyceps neogunnii sp. nov. Phytotaxa 302 (1): 27-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2
936887E7FFC38705FF6CFF3880A57247.taxon	biology_ecology	Host: — On larvae of Lepidoptera living in soil. Other material studied (paratypes): —— CHINA. Guizhou Province: Shibin County, Yuntai Mountain, on lepidopteran larva, 23 April 2013, Li-Ping Chen SB 13050301 (GZUHSB 13050301!), Li-Ping Chen SB 13050304 (GZUHSB 13050304!), Li-Ping Chen SB 13050305 (GZUHSB 13050305!); Anhui Province: Huangshan Mountain, on lepidopteran larva, 12 June 2014, Ting-Chi Wen HS 14061253 (GZUHHS 14061253!).	en	Wen, Ting-Chi, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Han, Yan-Feng, Huang, Shi-Ke, Zha, Ling-Sheng, Hyde, Kevin D., Kang, Ji-Chuan (2017): Multigene phylogeny and morphology reveal that the Chinese medicinal mushroom ‘ Cordyceps gunnii’ is Metacordyceps neogunnii sp. nov. Phytotaxa 302 (1): 27-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2
936887E7FFC38705FF6CFF3880A57247.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — Refers to previous, incorrect name used for this species in China, Cordyceps gunnii (Berk.) Berk.	en	Wen, Ting-Chi, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Han, Yan-Feng, Huang, Shi-Ke, Zha, Ling-Sheng, Hyde, Kevin D., Kang, Ji-Chuan (2017): Multigene phylogeny and morphology reveal that the Chinese medicinal mushroom ‘ Cordyceps gunnii’ is Metacordyceps neogunnii sp. nov. Phytotaxa 302 (1): 27-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.2
