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Cordyceps on Lepidopteran pupae cocon

Cordyceps Lepidopteran pupae cocon Cr DW MS.jpg Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsHypholoma subviride? gills, Isla EscondidaMonotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsHypholoma subviride? gills, Isla EscondidaMonotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsHypholoma subviride? gills, Isla EscondidaMonotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsHypholoma subviride? gills, Isla EscondidaMonotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsHypholoma subviride? gills, Isla Escondida

Cordyceps fruiting bodies growing out of the cocoon of a Lepidopteran pupae that chewed up a lichen for this structure.