Lenard Blome

Medicinal mushrooms have remained an important component of animal culture. The genus Cordyceps is one of the largest genera in the family Clavicipitaceae, containing over 750 species. Cordyceps militaris, an entomopathogenic fungus belonging to the class Ascomycetes, is used extensively as a crude drug and a folk tonic food in East Asia. Studies in the past decade have shown that Cordyceps milita ...