Medicinal Plants of Nepal - Caterpillar Fungus, Phyllanthus Emblica, Cannabis Sativa (Paperback)

Chapters: Caterpillar Fungus, Phyllanthus Emblica, Cannabis Sativa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: There are over 680 documented species of the sac fungus genus Cordyceps, and one of the most well known of these is the Cordyceps sinensis, colloquially known as caterpillar fungus. The scientific name's etymology is from the Latin cord "club," ceps "head," and sinensis "from China." The fungus is known in Tibetan as yartsa gunbu or yatsa gunbu. Caterpillar fungi are the result of a parasitic relationship between the fungus and the larva of the ghost moth genus Thitarodes, several species of which live on the Tibetan Plateau (Tibet, Qinghai, West-Sichuan, SW-Gansu