''Tolypocladium ophioglossoides'', also known by two of its better known synonyms ''Elaphocordyceps ophioglossoides'' and ''Cordyceps ophioglossoides'' and commonly known as the goldenthread cordyceps, is a species of fungus in the family

Ophiocordycipitaceae Ophiocordycipitaceae is a family of parasitic fungi in the Ascomycota, class Sordariomycetes. Genera *'' Blistum'' *'' Didymobotryopsis'' *'' Haptocillium'' *'' Harposporium'' (Anamorphic) *'' Ophiocordyceps''; anamorphic genera: **''Hirsutella ...

. It is parasitic on

fruit bodies The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. The fruitbody is part of the sexual phase of a fungal life cyc ...

of the truffle-like ''

Elaphomyces ''Elaphomyces'' (‘deer truffles’) is a genus of hypogeous fungi in the family Elaphomycetaceae. The widespread genus contains 25 truffle-like species. ''Elaphomyces'' is one of the most important ectomycorrhizal fungal genera in temperate and ...

''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''ophioglossoides'', derived from Ancient Greek, means "like a snake's tongue". The species is inedible.

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* Fungi described in 1787 Fungi of North America Inedible fungi Ophiocordycipitaceae Taxa named by Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart {{Hypocreales-stub